On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:21 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote:
> > > 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).

Sigh, let's fix that bug! :-)

-Seb


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