From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pankaj Gupta Subject: Re: [RFC v2 -next 0/2] virtio-net: Advised MTU feature Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1969060351.30231176.1458104130844.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> References: <1458075853-14789-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1458075853-14789-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Aaron Conole Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > The following series adds the ability for a hypervisor to set an MTU on the > guest during feature negotiation phase. This is useful for VM orchestration > when, for instance, tunneling is involved and the MTU of the various systems > should be homogenous. > > The first patch adds the feature bit as described in the proposed VFIO spec You mean VIRTIO spec? > addition found at > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201603/msg00001.html > > The second patch adds a user of the bit, and a warning when the guest changes > the MTU from the hypervisor advised MTU. Future patches may add more thorough > error handling. > > v2: > * Whitespace and code style cleanups from Sergei Shtylyov and Paolo Abeni > * Additional test before printing a warning > > Aaron Conole (2): > virtio: Start feature MTU support > virtio_net: Read the advised MTU > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) > > -- > 2.5.0 > >