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Stephen, thank you for your answer.

When you say "stop the device, configure new settings, and start", you mean
use these functions rte_eth_dev_stop and rte_eth_dev_start?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> only some device drivers support changing MTU via the change API.
> For the rest the application has to stop the device, configure new
> settings, and start.
>