10G link properties [PSARC/2009/206 Self Review]

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (04/01/09 00:03), Peter Memishian wrote:
> It seems a shame to clutter the dladm link property space (and thus dladm
> show-linkprop output) with this sea of related knobs when we could instead
> use the same syntax that dladm show-ether uses to report this information
> and have a single "speed-duplex" link property that takes a list -- e.g.:
> 
>   dladm set-linkprop -p speed-duplex=10G-f,1G-f net0
> 
> It would also mean we wouldn't need to add a new property with every bump
> in speed.
> 
> There's a bug logged on this: 6804384.

There are 2 aspects to it: one is the user-interface thorugh dladm
itself, and the other is the library-kernel interface. I can see some
benefit in allowing the library-kernel interface to have the ability
to set  single (speed-duplex) pairs. But whether each of those properties
needs to go through ARC is a different question (for which, I hope,
the answer is "no" because this is  private to the library).

--Sowmini