Re: [Xen-users] Jumbo packets and xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:07:19AM +0400, George Shuklin wrote:
> Last time i reed about netfront (in 'defenitive guide to xen
> hypervisor') it note what netfront driver limit data size for network
> translation to single page (2KiB). The one solution to gain network
> speed and lower cpu usage in dom0 is using hardware assisting network
> cards (netfront2?).
> 

Uhm, iirc jumbo frames have been supported for a long time
in Xen netback/netfront ?

also page-size is 4 kB, not 2 kB.

-- Pasi

> ?? ??????, 17/09/2010 ?? 14:03 -0500, James ??????????:
> > We are utilizing the xen hypervisor on nexenta with ISCSI as our 
> > method of communication with the guests (currently ubuntu but could be 
> > moving to centos). Obviously jumbo packet support would be nice to have. 
> > The last time I see that on the xen roadmap 
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenRoadMap . Is there a canonical 
> > place that spells out if jumbo frames are now supported or still on the 
> > todo list?
> > 
> > Thanks!
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