[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] enic: set the max allowed MTU for the NIC

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Jun 24 12:59:19 CEST 2016


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:22:47PM -0700, John Daley wrote:
> The max MTU is set to the max egress packet size allowed by the VIC
> minus the size of a an IPv4 L2 header with .1Q (18 bytes).
> 

I think a bit more detail might be needed here. For example:

* What was the MTU set to by default before this patch is applied? Was it just
set to 1518 or something else?
* What happens, if anything, if buffers bigger than the MTU size are sent down?

/Bruce


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