Version Control Commit by mstsirkin

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Author: mstsirkin
Date: 2016-10-11 00:58:19 +0000 (Tue, 11 Oct 2016)
New Revision: 585
Web View: https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/?rev=585&sc=1

Modified:
   trunk/content.tex
Log:
virtio-net: add Max MTU configuration field

It is helpful for a host to indicate it's MTU to be set on guest NICs
other than the assumed 1500 byte value.  This helps in situations where
the host network is using Jumbo Frames, or aiding in PMTU discovery by
configuring a homogenous network.  It is also helpful for sizing receive
buffers correctly.

The change adds a new field to configuration area of network
devices.  It will be used to pass a maximum MTU from the device to
the driver.  This will be used by the driver as a maximum value for
packet sizes during transmission, without segmentation offloading.

In addition, in order to support backward and forward compatibility,
we introduce a new feature bit called VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU.

VIRTIO-152

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <victork@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reiencke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>