[PATCH v7] net/tap: Allow jumbo frames

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Aug 8 17:03:23 CEST 2022


On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 16:49:44 +0200
Francesco Mancino <francesco.mancino at tutus.se> wrote:

> eth_dev_validate_mtu, introduced in 990912e676e, validates configured
> MTU plus overhead against max_rx_pktlen.
> Since TAP is a virtual device, it should support as big MTU as possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Mancino <francesco.mancino at tutus.se>
	dev_info->min_rx_bufsize = 0;


Thanks for your patience.

Since tap is built on top of an existing kernel network device a more
complete solution would be to query the kernel device to find out what
its MTU is. 

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>


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