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gve: Disallow MTUs within a problematic range
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Authored by jtranoleary_google.com on Feb 12 2025, 6:20 PM.
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Summary

If hardware LRO is enabled with GVE, then setting the driver's MTU to a
range of values around 8000 will cause dropped packets and drastically
degraded performance. While this issue is being investigated, we need
to prohibit the driver's MTU being set to a value within this range.

Signed-off-by: Jasper Tran O'Leary <jtranoleary@google.com>

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