Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] virtio-net: Add support to MTU feature

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 04:30:35PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Thanks for the reviews,
> 
> This series implements Virtio spec update from Aaron Conole which
> defines a way for the host to expose its max MTU to the guest.
> 
> "host_mtu" parameter is added to provide QEMU with the MTU value,
> and the backend, if supported, gets notified of the MTU value when the
> MTU feature neogotiation succeeds.
> 
> Only user backend currently supports MTU notification. A new protocol
> feature has been implemented for sending MTU value to the backend.
> 
> For kernel backend, it is expected the management tool also configures
> the tap/macvtap interface with same MTU value.
> Daniel, I would be interrested about your feedback on this implementation
> from management tool point of view.

I can't give real feedback yet, as I'm not seeing clear information on
what problem this series is designed to solve....

Regards,
Daniel
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