On 02/16/2018 08:10 AM, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Allow for changing the MTU within the limit of the maximum size of a
> descriptor (2048 bytes). Add the callback to change MTU from user-space
> and take the configurable MTU into account when configuring the
> hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+rene...@ragnatech.se>
> ---
>
> +static int ravb_change_mtu(struct net_device *ndev, int new_mtu)
> +{
> + if (netif_running(ndev))
> + return -EBUSY;
> +
> + ndev->mtu = new_mtu;
> + netdev_update_features(ndev);
Don't you somehow need to quiesce the RX DMA and make sure you that you
re-allocate all RX buffers within priv->rx_skb[q][entry] such that they
will be able to accept a larger buffer size?
If we put the ravb interface under high RX load and we change the MTU on
the fly, can we crash the kernel?
--
Florian
