Re: [PATCH net-next v4 4/4] net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: add MTU configuration support

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 08:03:37 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Make MTU configurable on KSZ87xx and KSZ88xx series of switches.
>
> Before this patch, pre-configured behavior was different on different
> switch series, due to opposite meaning of the same bit:
> - KSZ87xx: Reg 4, Bit 1 - if 1, max frame size is 1532; if 0 - 1514
> - KSZ88xx: Reg 4, Bit 1 - if 1, max frame size is 1514; if 0 - 1532
>
> Since the code was telling "... SW_LEGAL_PACKET_DISABLE, true)", I
> assume, the idea was to set max frame size to 1532.
>
> With this patch, by setting MTU size 1500, both switch series will be
> configured to the 1532 frame limit.
>
> This patch was tested on KSZ8873.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Arun Ramadoss <arun.ramadoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>

As an extension to this patch set, you might also want to set
ds->mtu_enforcement_ingress = true, to activate the bridge MTU
normalization logic, since you have one MTU global to the entire switch.