On 02/09/2016 14:43, "Joe Stringer" <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
>On 2 September 2016 at 14:02, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:23:22AM -0700, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
>>> By default Open vSwitch tries to configure internal interfaces MTU to
>>> match the bridge minimum, overriding any attempt by the user to
>>> configure it through standard system tools, or the database.
>>>
>>> While this works in many simple cases (there are probably many users
>>> that rely on this) it may create problems for more advanced use cases
>>> (like any overlay networks).
>>>
>>> This commit allows the user to override the default behavior by
>>> providing an explict MTU in the mtu_request column in the Interface
>>> table.
>>>
>>> This means that Open vSwitch will now treat differently database MTU
>>> requests from standard system tools MTU requests (coming from `ip link`
>>> or `ifconfig`), but this seems the best way to remain compatible with
>>> old users while providing a more powerful interface.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Darrell Ball <dlu...@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiet...@vmware.com>
>>
>> Thanks for taking care of all of this.
>>
>> For both:
>> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
Sorry for all the confusion and thanks for the review
>
>Thanks, this fixes up the failing check-{system-userspace,kernel} testsuites.
>
>Tested-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
Thanks for testing this
I updated NEWS and applied this to master and branch-2.6
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