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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:00:56 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811272300.58151.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227707891.9579.44.camel@blaa>

On Thursday 27 November 2008 00:28:11 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> We don't really have a max tx packet size limit, so allow configuring
> the device with up to 64k tx MTU.

Hi Mark,

Just one comment: maybe we should be conservative and maybe limit to 1500 if 
the host doesn't offer any of the GSO or MRG_RXBUF features?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26 13:58 [PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 23:28 ` David Miller
2008-11-26 23:28 ` David Miller
2008-11-27 12:30 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-11-27 13:57   ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-28  0:22     ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-28  9:29       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-28  9:29       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-01  4:02         ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-01  4:02         ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-28  0:22     ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-27 13:57   ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-27 12:30 ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-26 13:58 Mark McLoughlin

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