Following patch check if current MTU needs to be changed before issuing set-mtu ioctl.
Suggested-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> --- lib/netdev-linux.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/netdev-linux.c b/lib/netdev-linux.c index 19a80fb..4947536 100644 --- a/lib/netdev-linux.c +++ b/lib/netdev-linux.c @@ -1030,6 +1030,10 @@ netdev_linux_set_mtu(const struct netdev *netdev_, int mtu) struct ifreq ifr; int error; + if (netdev_dev->cache_valid & VALID_MTU && + netdev_dev->mtu == mtu) { + return 0; + } ifr.ifr_mtu = mtu; error = netdev_linux_do_ioctl(netdev_get_name(netdev_), &ifr, SIOCSIFMTU, "SIOCSIFMTU"); -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev