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From: pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com>
Cc: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Add packet truncation support.
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 11:17:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOrHB_BUYhZxOMrs4EJyCA1Z8UTYKCNLv3G1rEX5LHP_yamxDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575991E1.9020906@hpe.com>

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/2016 09:30 PM, pravin shelar wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:18 PM, William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +struct ovs_action_trunc {
>>> +       uint32_t max_len; /* Max packet size in bytes. */
>>
>> This could uint16_t. as it is related to packet len.
>>
>
> Is there something limiting MTUs to 65535 bytes?
>
I was thinking of typical traffic, ip, ip6. But since linux skb can
have handle larger packet lets keep this field 32bit.
So now we also needs cutlen to be 32 bit.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-09 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09  1:18 [PATCH] openvswitch: Add packet truncation support William Tu
2016-06-09  4:30 ` pravin shelar
2016-06-09 15:57   ` Rick Jones
2016-06-09 18:17     ` pravin shelar [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CALDO+SZ-Zzc96VQPHsKoDaSsQg6ZFmQWDaXhGLwny4FD2bqcSg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-09 22:04     ` pravin shelar

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