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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: user space virtio-net exits with "truncating packet" error
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:28:57 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905142128.58111.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905141258570.31748@zuben.voltaire.com>

On Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:42 pm Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When running with jumbo frames (i.e set tap0 and guest nic mtu to 9k)
> and using 8k sized packets with iperf, the qemu process exits with
> "virtio-net truncating packet" which I see in the code of
> qemu/hw/virtio-net.c
>
> :: virtio_net_receive(). This happens only when the VM is receiving, if I
>
> send 8K packets from the VM things go fine.
>
> I use virtio based NIC in the VM and Linux 2.6.29.1 in both the VM and the
> host. Qemu is the one provided by kvm release 84 - whose sources don't
> point me to a specific git tree nor a maintainer, so I hope you can help
> me...

Maintainer Cc'd.  The answer is that virtio_net by default only supports 1500 
MTU; I've not tried larger MTUs.

Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 10:07 user space virtio-net exits with "truncating packet" error Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 11:22 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-14 11:22   ` [Qemu-devel] " Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-14 12:25   ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 12:25     ` [Qemu-devel] " Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 11:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-05-14 14:04   ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-14 18:04     ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-15  5:18     ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-19 12:19       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-20  2:47         ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-20  6:20           ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-20  6:59             ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-21  5:53             ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-15  7:07     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-19 10:00       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-05-19 10:13         ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-14 15:34   ` Sridhar Samudrala

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