[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: set child MTU as the parent's
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Apr 29 11:18:05 PDT 2008
> When the child joins the broadcast group reset the mtu to
> the real one.
This changelog is a little too short for me to understand what this is
fixing. It seems that child devices are left with a bogus MTU until
they complete their multicast join, is that it?
> + priv->dev->mtu = IPOIB_UD_MTU(priv->max_ib_mtu);
> + priv->mcast_mtu = priv->admin_mtu = priv->dev->mtu;
Do child devices also need to copy over the checksum offload/LSO stuff
from the parent?
- R.
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