[ovs-dev] [PATCH 5/6] vswitch: Remove PMTUD support from userspace.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Dec 27 15:59:00 UTC 2012


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com> wrote:
> This patch removes path mtu discovery from userspace.  The feature
> still exists in the kernel where it will need to be removed in the
> future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>
> ---
>  NEWS                 |    1 +
>  lib/netdev-vport.c   |   11 -----------
>  vswitchd/vswitch.xml |   12 ------------
>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 2f8fbde..d606183 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ post-v1.9.0
>        available through ovs-appctl allow control over logging rate limits.
>      - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the value of
>        other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
> +    - PMTUD is no longer supported.
>

I would spell this out as tunnel path MTU discovery since it's
probably not obvious to most people but otherwise this looks good.



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