netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 2/4] mlx4: xdp: Allow raising MTU up to one page minus eth and vlan hdrs

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 20:36:14 +0200
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 2/4] mlx4: xdp: Allow raising MTU up to one
 page minus eth and vlan hdrs

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com> wrote:
> When XDP is active in mlx4, mlx4 is using one page/pkt.
> At the same time (i.e. when XDP is active), it is currently
> limiting MTU to be FRAG_SZ0 - ETH_HLEN - (2 * VLAN_HLEN)
> which is 1514 in x86.  AFAICT, we can at least raise the MTU
> limit up to PAGE_SIZE - ETH_HLEN - (2 * VLAN_HLEN) which this
> patch is doing.  It will be useful in the next patch which
> allows XDP program to extend the packet by adding new header(s).
>
> Note: In the earlier XDP patches, there is already existing guard
> to ensure the page/pkt scheme only applies when XDP is active
> in mlx4.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>

Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>