Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_net: lower limit on buffer size

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jun 02 2017 - 14:33:09 EST


From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 17:54:33 +0300

> commit d85b758f72b0 ("virtio_net: fix support for small rings")
> was supposed to increase the buffer size for small rings but had an
> unintentional side effect of decreasing it for large rings. This seems
> to break some setups - it's not yet clear why, but increasing buffer
> size back to what it was before helps.
>
> Fixes: d85b758f72b0 ("virtio_net: fix support for small rings")
> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Patch tested, pls merge.
>
> changes from v2:
> commit log tweaks to address comments by Sergei Shtylyov

Applied, thanks Michael.