[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Set MTU in userspace rather than kernel.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Thu Sep 15 22:52:27 UTC 2011


On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> This makes adding N ports to a bridge take N**2 time by checking the
> MTU of every existing port whenever a new port is added.  I see that
> the kernel datapath did the same thing, so maybe it's OK given
> caching.

As we discussed in person, this is probably fine under current circumstances.  We should keep it in mind if we're finding that there's a lot of complete port revalidation that's occurring.

--Justin





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