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Merge branch 'sunvnet-jumbograms' David L Stevens says: ==================== sunvnet: add jumbo frames support This patch set updates the sunvnet driver to version 1.6 of the VIO protocol to support per-port exchange of MTU information and allow non-standard MTU sizes, including jumbo frames. Using large MTUs shows a nearly 5X throughput improvement Linux-Solaris and > 10X throughput improvement Linux-Linux. Changes from v8: -add a short timeout to free pending skbs if a new transmit doesn't do it first per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Changes from v7: -handle skb allocation failures in vnet_skb_shape() per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Changes from v6: -made kernel transmit path zero-copy to remove memory n^2 scaling issue raised by Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota@oracle.com> Changes from v5: - fixed comment per Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> Changes from v4: - changed VNET_MAXPACKET per David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - added cookies to support non-contiguous buffers of max size Changes from v3: - added version functions per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - moved rmtu to vnet_port per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - explicitly set options bits and capability flags to 0 per Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota@oracle.com> Changes from v2: - make checkpatch clean Changes from v1: - fix brace formatting per Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>