Bug 804870 - Dropping instead of sending the truncated packets for 8139/e1000
Summary: Dropping instead of sending the truncated packets for 8139/e1000
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: jason wang
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Reported: 2012-03-20 02:47 UTC by jason wang
Modified: 2012-07-23 07:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-07-23 07:18:46 UTC
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Description jason wang 2012-03-20 02:47:18 UTC 
Description of problem:

After fix for bz781920 and bz772080, we send truncated packets when transmission buffer overrun (e1000/8139), we'd better drop the truncated packets as sending the partial packets were meaningless.


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6.4

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Comment 1 Ronen Hod 2012-07-23 07:18:46 UTC 
Closing.

- This is mostly an optimization issue for the non-recommended emulated NICs
- Not reported by the field.
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