From: Ben Guthro <bguthro@virtualiron.com>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.10 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows / jumbo frames and xen netback changes
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:36:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4857AFD4.7020407@virtualiron.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080617122818.GB4738@edu.joroinen.fi>
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We (VirtualIron) do support jumbo frames - but currently only for iSCSI
traffic to dom0 - not for inter-domain communications... ie - not over
the bridge/vif. So - I'm not sure that this is what you're talking about
here...
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote on 06/17/2008 08:28 AM:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:07:23PM +1000, James Harper wrote:
>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Have you thought about adding jumbo frame support (mtu 9000) ?
>>>
>>> There was some discussion about this earlier, but I guess there was no
>>> conclusion.. obviously this feature needs configuration on dom0 too
>>> (vif,bridge,peth).
>>>
>>>
>> Yes I've thought about it, but I don't think it's supported by netback
>> so there's not a lot I can do. I think some changes need to be made so
>> that netback and netfront/gplpv can tell each other the MTU in use.
>>
>>
>
> Hmm.. OK.
>
> Somehow I thought some Xen implementation (Citrix XenServer or VirtualIron)
> supported jumbos.. but I'm not sure about that. I'd have to check again.
>
> Does someone else have more information about this?
>
> -- Pasi
>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-17 10:43 Release 0.9.10 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows James Harper
2008-06-17 11:05 ` [Xen-users] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2008-06-17 11:07 ` James Harper
2008-06-17 12:28 ` [Xen-users] Release 0.9.10 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows / jumbo frames and xen netback changes Pasi Kärkkäinen
2008-06-17 12:36 ` Ben Guthro [this message]
2008-06-17 12:37 ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-22 11:08 ` James Harper
2008-06-22 11:16 ` Keir Fraser
2008-06-22 11:42 ` James Harper
2008-06-17 12:46 ` Release 0.9.10 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows Florian Manschwetus
2008-06-17 13:01 ` Florian Manschwetus
2008-06-22 10:00 ` [Xen-users] " James Harper
2008-06-22 10:48 ` Florian Manschwetus
2008-06-22 10:50 ` [Xen-users] " James Harper
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