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From: Francesco Mancino <francesco.mancino@tutus.se>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] net/tap: Allow jumbo frames
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:38:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93cbc18c-fcc4-d34d-4419-5268513f7b87@tutus.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220808080323.53f303fe@hermes.local>

Thank you for the feedback. 

I am sorry for the email spam, it was a learning process.

I am not sure what results we would get by querying the MTU
before configuring it, since we can (and do) set the MTU using
SIOCSIFMTU.

On 2022-08-08 17:03, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 16:49:44 +0200
> Francesco Mancino <francesco.mancino@tutus.se> wrote:
> 
>> eth_dev_validate_mtu, introduced in 990912e676e, validates configured
>> MTU plus overhead against max_rx_pktlen.
>> Since TAP is a virtual device, it should support as big MTU as possible.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Francesco Mancino <francesco.mancino@tutus.se>
> 	dev_info->min_rx_bufsize = 0;
> 
> 
> Thanks for your patience.
> 
> Since tap is built on top of an existing kernel network device a more
> complete solution would be to query the kernel device to find out what
> its MTU is. 
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-08 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-08  9:31 [PATCH] " Francesco Mancino
2022-08-08 14:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-08 14:49 ` [PATCH v7] " Francesco Mancino
2022-08-08 15:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-08 15:38     ` Francesco Mancino [this message]
2022-08-08 16:42       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-09  7:57         ` Francesco Mancino
2023-01-19 14:50     ` Ferruh Yigit

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