netdev - Re: RFC: MTU for serving NFS on Infiniband

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Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.2.00.1009301248250.1128@cluij.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:50:12 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
From:	Marc Aurele La France <tsi@...berta.ca>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
cc:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: MTU for serving NFS on Infiniband

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> I do want to thank you, however, for reminding me of TCP.  It's something 
> 20/20 hindsight says I should have checked out before starting this thread. 
> Logistically, it'll be a few days before I can do so though.  If that allows 
> me to increase the MTU all the way up to 65520, then this UDP thing will 
> likely remain unresolved.

Just to close off on this.  It's been a few weeks now, but moving to NFS 
over TCP allows me to increase the MTU all the way up to 65520 without 
issues.

Thanks for the help.

Marc.

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