[PATCH] virtio_net: large tx MTU support

Mark McLoughlin
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:58:11 -0000

We don't really have a max tx packet size limit, so allow configuring
the device with up to 64k tx MTU.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index e6b5d6e..71ca29c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -613,6 +613,17 @@ static struct ethtool_ops virtnet_ethtool_ops = {
 	.set_tso = ethtool_op_set_tso,
 };

+#define MIN_MTU 68
+#define MAX_MTU 65535
+
+static int virtnet_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
+{
+	if (new_mtu < MIN_MTU || new_mtu > MAX_MTU)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	dev->mtu = new_mtu;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
 	int err;
@@ -628,6 +639,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	dev->open = virtnet_open;
 	dev->stop = virtnet_close;
 	dev->hard_start_xmit = start_xmit;
+	dev->change_mtu = virtnet_change_mtu;
 	dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
 	dev->poll_controller = virtnet_netpoll;
--
1.6.0.3