From: Jakub Kicinski <kubak...@wp.pl> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:20:49 +0100
> Hm. I must be missing something really obvious. I just booted > net-next an hour ago and couldn't set MTU to anything larger than 1500 > on either nfp or igb. As far as I can read the code it will set the > max_mtu to 1500 in setup_ether() but none of the jumbo-capable drivers > had been touched by Jarod so far... Indeed. Jarod, this doesn't work. I guess the idea was that if the driver overrides ndo_change_mtu and enforeced it's limits there, the driver would still work after your changes. But that isn't what is happening, look at the IGB example. It uses ether_setup(), which sets those new defaults, but now when the MTU is changed you enforce those default min/max before the driver's ->ndo_change_mtu() has a change to step in front and make the decision on it's own. This means your changes pretty much did indeed break a lot of drivers's ability to set larger than a 1500 byte MTU.