netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: bridge: MTU handling changes

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Date:   Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:05:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp, 3chas3@...il.com,
        stephen@...workplumber.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: bridge: MTU handling changes

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:46:17 +0300

> As previously discussed the recent changes break some setups and could lead
> to packet drops. Thus the first patch reverts the behaviour for the bridge
> to follow the minimum MTU but also keeps the ability to set the MTU to the
> maximum (out of all ports) if vlan filtering is enabled. Patch 02 is the
> bigger change in behaviour - we've always had trouble when configuring
> bridges and their MTU which is auto tuning on port events
> (add/del/changemtu), which means config software needs to chase it and fix
> it after each such event, after patch 02 we allow the user to configure any
> MTU (ETH_MIN/MAX limited) but once that is done the bridge stops auto
> tuning and relies on the user to keep the MTU correct.
> This should be compatible with cases that don't touch the MTU (or set it
> to the same value), while allowing to configure the MTU and not worry
> about it changing afterwards.
> 
> The patches are intentionally split like this, so that if they get accepted
> and there are any complaints patch 02 can be reverted.

Series applied, thanks.