[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Increase default MTU on patch ports

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Sep 14 20:34:43 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:28:56PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
> >> The default MTU on patch ports was 1500, which would cause jumbo frames
> >> to get dropped between the ends of the patch.  It also dropped the MTU
> >> of attached bridges to no more that 1500 bytes.  This patch increases
> >> the default MTU to 65535.  Long term, we should eliminate MTU on patch
> >> ports entirely.
> > 
> > In Jesse's absence, this looks fine to me, except that it needs a
> > Signed-off-by.
> 
> Well, in that case, I rescind my previous blessing of your code; you
> don't have a Signed-off-by, either.  :-P

Oops, I've added it.




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