Hi John

No, you do not need to change the mbuf size, you just need to configure the 
maximum packet length and jumbo frame correctly.

Of cause, if you want to put the whole packet into a mbuf, you can define size 
of mbuf you wanted when calling rte_mempool_create() during initialization.

Regards,
Helin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of GongJinrong
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:27 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] How to change the mbuf size
> 
> Hi, guys
> 
>    I am using pmd driver to capture packets, the MTU is 8000, so I want to
> change the dpdk memory block size to 8000, how can I do that?
> 
> Best Regards
> John Gong

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