tree ee771cadeb8650f5b938935e68fe02858e4d2fa3
parent 4aa9c93e1c7911866c546651a5efbbf62914092e
author Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1181329517 -0500
committer Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 1181427934 -0400

ibmveth: Automatically enable larger rx buffer pools for larger mtu

Currently, ibmveth maintains several rx buffer pools, which can
be modified through sysfs. By default, pools are not allocated by
default such that jumbo frames cannot be supported without first
activating larger rx buffer pools. This results in failures when attempting
to change the mtu. This patch makes ibmveth automatically allocate
these larger buffer pools when the mtu is changed.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>