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Re: [RPRWG] Transmission of fairness frames




Could be a flaw, its been known to happen. I will leave it to John Lemon 
to verify and
file the comment. He can even put in an editors note in D2.6 that this 
has to be fixed
in D2.7.

mike

Fredrik Davik wrote:

>I am testing D2.5 in my simulator, and are getting into problems when
>transmitting fairness frames.
>
>The function TransmitFrame() on page 261 which transmits fairness
>frames is unspecified.
>
>I assume transmission of fairness frames goes via the stage queue
>(from Q_TX_SS to Q_TX_STAGE). The stage queue selection state machine
>does not have any rows handling frames of type FT_FAIRNESS, thus
>fairness frames can't get from the stage queue and onto the ringlet,
>
>I looked through the comment database and didn't find any comments on
>this issue...
>
>Im I missing something here or is there a flaw in D2.5?
>
>Best Regards, 
>Fredrik 
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