From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:58:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227707891.9579.44.camel@blaa> (raw)
We don't really have a max tx packet size limit, so allow configuring
the device with up to 64k tx MTU.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index e6b5d6e..71ca29c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -613,6 +613,17 @@ static struct ethtool_ops virtnet_ethtool_ops = {
.set_tso = ethtool_op_set_tso,
};
+#define MIN_MTU 68
+#define MAX_MTU 65535
+
+static int virtnet_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
+{
+ if (new_mtu < MIN_MTU || new_mtu > MAX_MTU)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ dev->mtu = new_mtu;
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
int err;
@@ -628,6 +639,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
dev->open = virtnet_open;
dev->stop = virtnet_close;
dev->hard_start_xmit = start_xmit;
+ dev->change_mtu = virtnet_change_mtu;
dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
dev->poll_controller = virtnet_netpoll;
--
1.6.0.3
next reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-26 13:58 Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2008-11-26 23:28 ` [PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support David Miller
2008-11-27 12:30 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-27 13:57 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-28 0:22 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-28 9:29 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-01 4:02 ` Rusty Russell
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