> > If this is indeed the case, the thing I'm advocating is to stop > > treating jumbo frames as a special case and bring some consistency in > > the individual drivers regarding turning it on (or making it > > available), or dispensing with having to explicitly turn it on in each > > driver and making its availability transparent - always there, but > > with a default MTU of 1500. > > What you're advocating for is exactly what the implementation does.
Sadly, not exactly. For instance, there is still an external tunable in nxge that must be set (6757414) and ixgbe has similar problems (though I can't find the bugid right now). -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
