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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: vhost user MTU and promisc mode
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:19:36 +0100
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Hi Jianfeng,

On 02/06/2017 07:39 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
>
>
> Have seen that you submit a feature in QEMU, commit c5f048d8fb69
> (“vhost-user: Add MTU protocol feature and op”).
>
>
>
> Appreciate your insights on:
>
> (1) Do you have plan to enable it in DPDK vhost user?
Yes, I plan to propose this for v17.05 release.
For vhost-user backend, the op is to notify the backend with the MTU
value set in QEMU, so that it can ensure packets sent won't be bigger.

>
> (2) How about another similar feature, promisc mode enable/disable?
This is ont something we have considered yet.
Are you willing to work on it?

Thanks,
Maxime

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>
> Thanks,
>
> Jianfeng
>