[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/IPoIB: Fix change mtu when switching to UD mode
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jun 30 20:12:46 PDT 2008
> When changing from CM mode to UD mode, use the kernel function
> dev_set_mtu() instead of directly setting dev->mtu. This is necessary
> so any other subsystem that need to know about this will (this is done
> through the call to call_netdevice_notifiers().
What type of breakage do we get without this patch? Does the assignment
of dev->mtu in ipoib_mcast_join_task() need the same conversion?
- R.
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