On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:22:35AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Currently the kernel automatically sets the MTU of any internal
> interfaces to the minimum of all attached interfaces because the Linux
> bridge does this.  Userspace can do this with more knowledge and
> flexibility.
> 
> Feature #7323
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]>

This makes adding N ports to a bridge take N**2 time by checking the
MTU of every existing port whenever a new port is added.  I see that
the kernel datapath did the same thing, so maybe it's OK given
caching.

Jesse needs to look at this too.
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