On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:36 PM Alex K <rightkickt...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 02:49 Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I would like to learn more about OVN and especially the maximum MTU that
>> I can use in my environment.
>>
>> Current Setup 4.3.10
>> Network was created via UI -> MTU Custom -> 8976 -> Create on External
>> Provider -> Connect to Physical Network
>>
>> So my physical connection is MTU 9000 and I have read that Geneve uses 24
>> bits (maybe that's wrong ?) , thus I have reduced the MTU to 8976.
>>
> From the internet draft it seems that the tunnel header + reserved bits
> comprise 64 bits. A common practice for Geneve implementations  is to use
> 8900 mtu for VMs when having 9000 mtu physical network.
>
>
Ack, this is a safe choice.
In oVirt's default configuration, an overhead of 58 bytes
( = 20 IPv4 header + 8 UDP header + 16 GENEVE Ethernet header (including 8
bytes options) + 14 bytes inner Ethernet header)
is added.
This is why the default MTU for OVN networks in oVirt is 1442 bytes, which
assumes 1500 bytes MTU in the physical network.




> The draft:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-08
>
>>
>> I did some testing on the VMs and ping with payload of '8914' was the
>> maximum I could pass without fragmenting and thus the MTU on the VMs was
>> set to 8942.
>>
>> Did I correctly configure the test network's MTU and am I understanding
>> it correctly that we need extra 34 bits inside the network for
>> encapsulation ?
>>
>>
You could check with packet analyzers like tcpdump and wireshark.


> I have checked
>> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/network/managed_mtu_for_vm_networks.html
>> but I don't see any refference how to calculate the max MTU.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Strahil Nikolov
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