Currently, enic completely ignores the requested max Rx packet size
(rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len). The desired behavior is that the NIC hardware
drops packets larger than the requested size, even though they are
still smaller than MTU.
Cisco VIC does not have such a feature. But, we can accomplish a
similar (not same) effect by reducing the size of posted receive
buffers. Packets larger than the posted size get truncated, and the
receive handler drops them. This is also how the kernel enic driver
enforces the Rx side MTU.
This workaround works only when scatter mode is *not* used. When
scatter is used, there is currently no way to support
rxmode.max_rx_pkt_len, as the NIC always receives packets up to MTU.
For posterity, add a copious amount of comments regarding the
hardware's drop/receive behavior with respect to max/current MTU.
Signed-off-by: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>
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