Oh, ok. It does work quite well on my local guests that come up with
1500 MTU. Maybe the EC2 guests would need a bigger data size value than
1000. But yeah, as long as I have some way to verify whatever comes up
to fix this, it is ok.

Yes, the loss of jumbo frames was expected. As long as high throughput
is not critical it is at least good enough as a work-around.

About a upstream discussion:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg282340.html

Basically it looks like the problem was kind of known but probably did
not happens often enough. Or actually complicated to fix. It appears
that other drivers will not have that issue as long as the limit is in
the actual transfer size and not in the number of pages required to
accommodate the frags/scatter gather list. Unfortunately Xen has a limit
there that guests have to impose because otherwise the host side driver
would shut down the connection completely.

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