public/io/netif: specify MTU override node

There is currently no documentation to state what MTU a frontend should
adertise to its network stack. It has however long been assumed that the
default value of 1500 is correct.

This patch specifies a mechanism to allow the tools to set the MTU via a
xenstore node in the frontend area and states that the absence of that node
means the frontend should assume an MTU of 1500 octets.

NOTE: The Windows PV frontend has used an MTU sampled from the xenstore
      node specified in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
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Paul Durrant authored and Wei Liu committed 2020-08-27 10:03:54 +00:00
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A virtual network device frontend. Described by
[xen/include/public/io/netif.h][NETIF]
NOTE: ~/device/vif/$DEVID/mtu can be used to inform the frontend of an
increased MTU. (The default MTU is 1500 octets).
#### ~/device/vscsi/$DEVID/* []
A virtual scsi device frontend. Described by
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* present).
*/
/*
* MTU
* ===
*
* The toolstack may set a value of MTU for the frontend by setting the
* /local/domain/<domid>/device/vif/<vif>/mtu node with the MTU value in
* octets. If this node is absent the frontend should assume an MTU value
* of 1500 octets. A frontend is also at liberty to ignore this value so
* it is only suitable for informing the frontend that a packet payload
* >1500 octets is permitted.
*/
/*
* Hash types
* ==========
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