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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
Cc: "Sergey Shtylyov" <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>,
	"Biju Das" <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>,
	"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com>,
	"Lad Prabhakar" <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>,
	"Mitsuhiro Kimura" <mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] net: ravb: Fix maximum MTU for GbEth devices
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240617170759.270f79f0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240615103038.973-2-paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:30:37 +0100 Paul Barker wrote:
> The datasheets for all SoCs using the GbEth IP specify a maximum
> transmission frame size of 1.5 kByte. I've confirmed through internal
> discussions that support for 1522 byte frames has been validated, which
> allows us to support the default MTU of 1500 bytes after reserving space
> for the Ethernet header, frame checksums and an optional VLAN tag.


But what's the user impact? If we send a bigger frame the IP will hang?
Drop the packet? Something else?
"Validated" can also mean "officially supported" sometimes vendors just
say that to narrow down the test matrix :(

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-18  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-15 10:30 [net-next PATCH 0/2] Fix maximum TX/RX frame sizes in ravb driver Paul Barker
2024-06-15 10:30 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] net: ravb: Fix maximum MTU for GbEth devices Paul Barker
2024-06-15 12:38   ` Niklas Söderlund
2024-06-17 19:38   ` Sergey Shtylyov
2024-06-17 19:45     ` Sergey Shtylyov
2024-08-13 13:37     ` Paul Barker
2024-06-18  0:07   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-08-13 12:53     ` Paul Barker
2024-06-15 10:30 ` [net-next PATCH 2/2] net: ravb: Fix R-Car RX frame size limit Paul Barker
2024-06-15 13:04   ` Niklas Söderlund
2024-06-17 14:20     ` Paul Barker
2024-06-16  1:23   ` Andrew Lunn
2024-06-17 14:03     ` Paul Barker
2024-06-17 14:29       ` Andrew Lunn
2024-08-13 13:29         ` Paul Barker
2024-08-13 14:06           ` Andrew Lunn
2024-08-15  9:10             ` Paul Barker
2024-06-17 20:18   ` Sergey Shtylyov
2024-06-16 19:22 ` [net-next PATCH 0/2] Fix maximum TX/RX frame sizes in ravb driver Sergey Shtylyov

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