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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Loic Prylli <loic@myri.com>
Cc: Bryan Lawver <lawver1@llnl.gov>,
	Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>,
	mst@dev.mellanox.co.il, general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:12:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4637BB38.9020809@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4637B9A4.2050103@myri.com>

Loic Prylli wrote:
> On 4/30/2007 2:12 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
>>
>> Speaking of defaults, it would seem that the external 1.2.0 driver 
>> comes with 9000 bytes as the default MTU?  At least I think that is 
>> what I am seeing now that I've started looking more closely.
>>
>> rick jones
> 
> 
> 
> That's the same for the in-kernel-tree code (9K MTU by default). 
> Assuming this is not wanted, I will submit a patch for that.

While I like what that does for perrformance, and at the risk of putting 
words into the mouths of netdev, I suspect that 1500 bytes is indeed the 
desired default.  It matches the IEEE specs, I've yet to see a switch 
which enabled "Jumbo Frames" by default, not everything out there even 
believes that Jubmo Frames means 9000 byte MTU etc etc etc.  I think 
that 1500 bytes for an "Ethernet" device remains in line with the 
principle of least surprise.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <6.1.2.0.2.20070426083410.1389d9e0@mail.llnl.gov>
     [not found]     ` <20070426161409.GF15540@mellanox.co.il>
     [not found]       ` <6.1.2.0.2.20070426095112.138e9a68@mail.llnl.gov>
     [not found]         ` <20070426180618.GJ15540@mellanox.co.il>
     [not found]           ` <6.1.2.0.2.20070427115435.13ea5ec0@mail.llnl.gov>
2007-04-27 20:32             ` [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding Rick Jones
2007-04-27 22:26               ` Bryan Lawver
2007-04-27 22:32                 ` Rick Jones
2007-04-27 22:43                   ` Bryan Lawver
2007-04-27 23:37                     ` Rick Jones
2007-04-27 23:39                       ` David Miller
2007-04-27 23:48                         ` Rick Jones
2007-04-27 23:52                           ` David Miller
2007-04-30 17:16                             ` Rick Jones
2007-05-01 22:43                               ` [PATCH] make myri10ge use default MTU of 1500 bytes Loic Prylli
2007-04-28  6:51                       ` [ofa-general] Re: IPoIB forwarding Bill Fink
2007-04-29 19:40                         ` Loic Prylli
2007-04-30 21:12                           ` Rick Jones
2007-05-01 22:05                             ` Loic Prylli
2007-05-01 22:12                               ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-05-03 23:37                               ` Bryan Lawver
2007-04-30 17:07                         ` Rick Jones
2007-05-01  5:57                           ` Bill Fink
2007-05-01 16:26                             ` Loic Prylli
2007-04-28  2:35                 ` parks

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