On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 at 18:55 Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Eric Garver <e...@erig.me> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:32:32AM -0500, Eric Garver wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 03:17:28PM +0000, James Page wrote:
> >> > Hi Eric
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 at 16:54 Eric Garver <e...@erig.me> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 03:57:08PM +0000, James Page wrote:
> >> > > > Hi Ben s
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 at 14:55 James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > OK, I sent a patch:
> >> > > > >>         https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/860192/
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Thanks Ben - I'll pull this patch into the Ubuntu packages and
> test
> >> > > this
> >> > > > > weekend.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > >  I pulled your patch in ontop of our current 2.8.1 packages and
> >> > > re-tested;
> >> > > > I'm not seeing a difference in behaviour with the patch in place.
> I
> >> > > removed
> >> > > > the vport_gre and ip_gre kernel modules to force a re-creation of
> the
> >> > > > device on restart of OVS as well as trying a reboot of the test
> machine:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > 7: gre0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1476 qdisc noop state DOWN mode
> DEFAULT group
> >> > > > default qlen 1
> >> > > >     link/gre 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> >> > > > 8: gretap0@NONE: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1462 qdisc noop state
> DOWN
> >> > > mode
> >> > > > DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> >> > > >     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >> > > > 9: gre_sys@NONE: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1472 qdisc
> >> > > > pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group
> default
> >> > > qlen
> >> > > > 1000
> >> > > >     link/ether 52:ad:6d:89:bb:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >> > >
> >> > > Are there any errors is dmesg? It's possible setlink won't accept
> >> > > UINT16_MAX. grep for "Invalid MTU".
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Not under 4.4 but I do under 4.13:
> >> >
> >> > [    6.794079] gre: GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
> >> > [    6.797621] ip_gre: GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
> >> > [    6.798326] gre_sys: Invalid MTU 65535 requested, hw max 1500
> >> >
> >> > Looks like the kernel is limiting to 1500.
> >>
> >> I would expect setting with ip-link to fail as well.
> >> What does the below show?:
> >>
> >>   $ ip link set dev gre_sys mtu 65535
> >
> > Ugh. This is a separate kernel bug fixed by this commit:
> >
> >     commit cfddd4c33c254954927942599d299b3865743146 <(386)%20574-3146>
> >     Author: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
> >     Date:   Mon Dec 18 14:24:35 2017 +0800
> >
> >     ip_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap
>
> Thanks Eric, that matches my findings, glad that there seems to be an
> accepted fix already.
> But it is fairly recent and only in since 4.15-rc8 levels afaik.
>
> But OTOH its description at [1] reads pretty much like my notes so far.
>
> @James - do you think you could test a super-recent mainline kernel
> build from [2] in regard to this issue?
>

Thanks all

Re-tested with the mainline kernel; gre_sys device is still configured with
a 1472 MTU, however I was then able to increase it using ip link set
gre_sys mtu XXXX, confirming that the kernel applied hardware limit was not
longer being enforced - however looks like the IFLA_MTU settings provided
from OVS are still being ignored by the kernel.
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