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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Naveen Mamindlapalli <naveenm@marvell.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sgoutham@marvell.com,
	Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Reduce minimum mtu size to 60
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:57:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YuMGMiFv8TAiUI11@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220728123812.21974-1-naveenm@marvell.com>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 06:08:12PM +0530, Naveen Mamindlapalli wrote:
> From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
> 
> PTP messages like SYNC, FOLLOW_UP, DELAY_REQ are of size 58 bytes.
> Using a minimum packet length as 64 makes NIX to pad 6 bytes of
> zeroes while transmission. This is causing latest ptp4l application to
> emit errors since length in PTP header and received packet are not same.
> Padding upto 3 bytes is fine but more than that makes ptp4l to assume
> the pad bytes as a TLV. Hence reduce the size to 60 from 64.

Please Cc: the PTP maintainer for changes like this.

I also don't follow your explanation. At least for the original 802.3,
you had to pad packets shorter than 64 bytes, otherwise CSMA/CD did
not work. So i would expect PTP messages should be padded to 64?

Or is you hardware doing the padding wrong, and this is a workaround
for that bug?

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-28 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-28 12:38 [net PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Reduce minimum mtu size to 60 Naveen Mamindlapalli
2022-07-28 21:57 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-07-29  9:33   ` Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta

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