[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: add ability to set min/max MTU

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/16/2019 7:40 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:16 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/19/2019 12:22 PM, Igor Ryzhov wrote:
>>> Starting with kernel version 4.10, there are new min/max MTU values in
>>> net_device structure, which are set to ETH_MIN_MTU and ETH_DATA_LEN by
>>> default. We should be able to change these values to allow MTU more than
>>> 1500 to be set on KNI.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov at nfware.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> I intend to change the title as "kni: fix mtu setting with kernels >= 4.10".
> Does it sound ok to you?

I am not quite sure it is a fix, this patch enables application to pass min/max
MTU values for kni netdev but existing code is not doing anything wrong.

> 
> Would it make sense to backport this patch?
>