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| author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2017-03-08 02:14:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2017-04-07 16:38:59 +0300 |
| commit | 2e123b44a3c19de75f40ee0081d6d4fc04adfdc7 (patch) | |
| tree | a2ec9ff230c93bab071e13798899a9040aaf76e0 /drivers/net | |
| parent | a71c9a1c779f2499fb2afc0553e543f18aff6edf (diff) | |
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virtio_net: enable big packets for large MTU values
If one enables e.g. jumbo frames without mergeable
buffers, packets won't fit in 1500 byte buffers
we use. Switch to big packet mode instead.
TODO: make sizing more exact, possibly extend small
packet mode to use larger pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index ea9890d61967..006f1a603102 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -2367,6 +2367,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) dev->mtu = mtu; dev->max_mtu = mtu; } + + /* TODO: size buffers correctly in this case. */ + if (dev->mtu > ETH_DATA_LEN) + vi->big_packets = true; } if (vi->any_header_sg) |