[ofa-general] Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

[Or Gerlitz]

Shirley Ma wrote:
>         Since ehca can support 4K MTU, we would like to see a patch in 
> IPoIB to allow link MTU to be up to 4K instead of current 2K for 2.6.24 
> kernel. The idea is IPoIB link MTU will pick up a return value from SM's 
> default broadcast MTU. This patch should be a small patch, I hope you are 
> OK with this.

The only IB switching chip I know does not support 4K IB MTU so you 
would be able to use it only in p2p connections, correct?

Or.