[ovs-dev] [PATCHv2 0/6] Loosen tunnel device MTU constraints.

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org> wrote:
> Since the commit e23775f20e1a ("datapath: Add support for lwtunnel"),
> devices underlying each tunnel type have applied quite strict restrictions
> on the MTU which can be set for the tunnel device, even if the underlying
> physical device has no such restriction. This made it impossible to, for
> instance, send jumbo frames over a tunnel which should otherwise support it.
>
> This series loosens the restrictions for these tunnel devices and sets the
> default MTU to a very high value, meaning that in practice they will
> handle any size packet that the underlying devices support sending.

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org>