From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:53:32 +0200

> Petr says:
> 
> When offloading GRE tunnels, the MTU setting is kept fixed after the
> initial offload even as the slow-path configuration changed. Worse: the
> offloaded MTU setting is actually just a transient value set at the time
> of NETDEV_REGISTER of the tunnel. As of commit ffc2b6ee4174 ("ip_gre:
> fix IFLA_MTU ignored on NEWLINK"), that transient value is zero, and
> unless there's e.g. a VRF migration that prompts re-offload, it stays at
> zero, and all GRE packets end up trapping.
> 
> Thus, in patch #1, change the way the MTU is changed post-registration,
> so that the full event protocol is observed. That way the drivers get to
> see the change and have a chance to react.
> 
> In the remaining two patches, implement support for MTU change in mlxsw
> driver.

Series applied, thanks.

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