Re: [PATCH v3] i40e: Prevent setting MTU if greater than MFS

[Paolo Abeni]

Hi,

On Tue, 2024-03-12 at 10:42 +0100, Erwan Velu wrote:
> Commit 6871a7de705b6f6a4046f0d19da9bcd689c3bc8e from iPXE project is

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> setting the MFS to 0x600 = 1536.
> 
> At boot time the i40e driver complains about it with
> the following message but continues.
> 
> 	MFS for port 1 has been set below the default: 600
> 
> If the MTU size is increased, the driver accept it but large packets will not
> be processed by the firmware generating tx_errors. The issue is pretty
> silent for users. i.e doing TCP in such context will generates lots of
> retransmissions until the proper window size (below 1500) will be used.
> 
> To fix this case, it would have been ideal to increase the MFS,
> via i40e_aqc_opc_set_mac_config, incoming patch will take care of it.
> 
> At least, this commit prevents setting up an MTU greater than the current MFS.
> It will avoid being in the position of having an MTU set to 9000 on the
> netdev with a firmware refusing packets larger than 1536.

This looks like a legit fix that should target the 'net' tree, @Tony:
do you agree? 

If so, Erwan, please include a suitable fixes tag in the next revision.
Please include into the subj prefix a suitable target tree. I think
this should go first via the intel tree for testing, so 'iwl-net'
should fit.

In any case please respect the 24h grace period when posting on netdev:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst#L399

Cheers,

Paolo