[ale] Higher MTU for 40 GB NICs?

[leam hall]

I'm of the opposite opinion, having been bitten by downstream devices.
I generally set it to 1460 or so if the interface sends anything
outside of my control. Which is most things. If you're using an
interface dedicated to backend storage, then the higher MTU can help
some. No metrics for that, but that's my understanding.



On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:29 PM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> absolutely increase it, it lowers the overhead of TCP. 9000 should be the
> default MTU for 10 GB links at a minimum. be wary of packet fragmentation if
> they end up somewhere that isn't configured to use that MTU though.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com>
> wrote:
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>> Is there any intrinsic benefit to using a higher MTU for 40 GB NICs?
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>> That is, with all other things being equal is there any benefit to setting
>> it higher on a 40 GB than on a 10 GB or 1 GB?
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>> I notice 40 GB defaulted to 1500 just like the 1 GB and 10 GB.
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>> The only time I’ve mucked with MTU in recent memory was because a vendor
>> insisted it would solve a problem.   (It didn’t because the issue wasn’t
>> networking in the first place but that is another story.)


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