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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:00:56 +1030
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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.