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authorDavid Wragg <david@weave.works>2016-02-10 00:05:58 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-02-10 05:50:03 -0500
commit7e059158d57b79159eaf1f504825d19866ef2c42 (patch)
tree08f87eb3b0e08a48203e1ec95b2ddd00b91ca412 /drivers
parent55e5bfb53cff286c1c1ff49f51325dc15c7fea63 (diff)
downloadlinux-7e059158d57b79159eaf1f504825d19866ef2c42.tar.bz2
vxlan, gre, geneve: Set a large MTU on ovs-created tunnel devices
Prior to 4.3, openvswitch tunnel vports (vxlan, gre and geneve) could transmit vxlan packets of any size, constrained only by the ability to send out the resulting packets. 4.3 introduced netdevs corresponding to tunnel vports. These netdevs have an MTU, which limits the size of a packet that can be successfully encapsulated. The default MTU values are low (1500 or less), which is awkwardly small in the context of physical networks supporting jumbo frames, and leads to a conspicuous change in behaviour for userspace. Instead, set the MTU on openvswitch-created netdevs to be the relevant maximum (i.e. the maximum IP packet size minus any relevant overhead), effectively restoring the behaviour prior to 4.3. Signed-off-by: David Wragg <david@weave.works> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/geneve.c18
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/vxlan.c11
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
index d2031ce8baea..028e3873c310 100644
--- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
@@ -1453,11 +1453,21 @@ struct net_device *geneve_dev_create_fb(struct net *net, const char *name,
err = geneve_configure(net, dev, &geneve_remote_unspec,
0, 0, 0, htons(dst_port), true, 0);
- if (err) {
- free_netdev(dev);
- return ERR_PTR(err);
- }
+ if (err)
+ goto err;
+
+ /* openvswitch users expect packet sizes to be unrestricted,
+ * so set the largest MTU we can.
+ */
+ err = geneve_change_mtu(dev, IP_MAX_MTU);
+ if (err)
+ goto err;
+
return dev;
+
+ err:
+ free_netdev(dev);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(geneve_dev_create_fb);
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index e992c6a05f86..a31cd954b308 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -2779,6 +2779,7 @@ static int vxlan_dev_configure(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
int err;
bool use_ipv6 = false;
__be16 default_port = vxlan->cfg.dst_port;
+ struct net_device *lowerdev = NULL;
vxlan->net = src_net;
@@ -2799,9 +2800,7 @@ static int vxlan_dev_configure(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
}
if (conf->remote_ifindex) {
- struct net_device *lowerdev
- = __dev_get_by_index(src_net, conf->remote_ifindex);
-
+ lowerdev = __dev_get_by_index(src_net, conf->remote_ifindex);
dst->remote_ifindex = conf->remote_ifindex;
if (!lowerdev) {
@@ -2825,6 +2824,12 @@ static int vxlan_dev_configure(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
needed_headroom = lowerdev->hard_header_len;
}
+ if (conf->mtu) {
+ err = __vxlan_change_mtu(dev, lowerdev, dst, conf->mtu, false);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
if (use_ipv6 || conf->flags & VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA)
needed_headroom += VXLAN6_HEADROOM;
else