[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] ofproto: Honor mtu_request even for internal ports.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Sep 2 21:02:24 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:23:22AM -0700, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
> By default Open vSwitch tries to configure internal interfaces MTU to
> match the bridge minimum, overriding any attempt by the user to
> configure it through standard system tools, or the database.
> 
> While this works in many simple cases (there are probably many users
> that rely on this) it may create problems for more advanced use cases
> (like any overlay networks).
> 
> This commit allows the user to override the default behavior by
> providing an explict MTU in the mtu_request column in the Interface
> table.
> 
> This means that Open vSwitch will now treat differently database MTU
> requests from standard system tools MTU requests (coming from `ip link`
> or `ifconfig`), but this seems the best way to remain compatible with
> old users while providing a more powerful interface.
> 
> Suggested-by: Darrell Ball <dlu998 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod at vmware.com>

Thanks for taking care of all of this.

For both:
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>



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