From: "Durrant, Paul" <pdurrant@amazon.co.uk>
To: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>, "Paul Durrant" <paul@xen.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/4] public/io/netif: specify MTU override node
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:14:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e34bfae1b8ea4039b7a5e50fd9052d3a@EX13D32EUC003.ant.amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ef89ad4-c48e-ee42-cdcf-8118b2621c16@suse.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com>
> Sent: 03 August 2020 06:09
> To: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: Durrant, Paul <pdurrant@amazon.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH 3/4] public/io/netif: specify MTU override node
>
> On 30.07.20 21:48, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> >
> > There is currently no documentation to state what MTU a frontend should
> > adertise to its network stack. It has however long been assumed that the
> > default value of 1500 is correct.
> >
> > This patch specifies a mechanism to allow the tools to set the MTU via a
> > xenstore node in the frontend area and states that the absence of that node
> > means the frontend should assume an MTU of 1500 octets.
> >
> > NOTE: The Windows PV frontend has used an MTU sampled from the xenstore
> > node specified in this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
>
> Can you please update docs/misc/xenstore-paths.pandoc accordingly?
Sure. Given the path is for use by tools then it should indeed be documented there as well.
> With that you can have my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>
Thanks,
Paul
>
> Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-30 19:48 [PATCH 0/4] tools: propagate bridge MTU to vif frontends Paul Durrant
2020-07-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] tools/hotplug: add remove_from_bridge() and improve debug output Paul Durrant
2020-07-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] tools/hotplug: combine add/online and remove/offline in vif-bridge Paul Durrant
2020-07-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] public/io/netif: specify MTU override node Paul Durrant
2020-08-03 5:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-08-03 8:14 ` Durrant, Paul [this message]
2020-07-30 19:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] tools/hotplug: modify set_mtu() to inform the frontend via xenstore Paul Durrant
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