On 09/13/2016 05:18 PM, Aaron Conole wrote: > It is helpful for a host to indicate it's MTU to be set on guest NICs > other than the assumed 1500 byte value. This helps in situations where > the host network is using Jumbo Frames, or aiding in PMTU discovery by > configuring a homogenous network. It is also helpful for sizing receive > buffers correctly. > > The change adds a new field to configuration area of network > devices. It will be used to pass a maximum MTU from the device to > the driver. This will be used by the driver as a maximum value for > packet sizes during transmission, without segmentation offloading. > > In addition, in order to support backward and forward compatibility, > we introduce a new feature bit called VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU. > > VIRTIO-152 > Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> > Cc: Victor Kaplansky <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]> > --- Very good. I'm needing this for my FCoE over virtio work.
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