2009/235 dladm Possible Values List

[Mike Shapiro]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:45:48PM -0400, Girish Moodalbail wrote:
> Mike Shapiro wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:00:16PM -0400, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> >>On (04/14/09 10:30), Mike Shapiro wrote:
> >>>(b) What is the jumbo size I ought to use with this card
> >>>    for optimal large MTU performance on the card?
> >>>
> >>Having a read-only property for optimal value per property per driver
> >>would not scale well as we add properties.
> >
> >I'm not asking for an optimal value for every property: I'm asking
> >for a single property that indicates "optimal_jumbo" or whatever.
> 
> 
> Would specifiying the *preferred value* in the possible set, work? For 
> example, the display would be:
> 
> 1500-9000 (8150);
> 
> The preferred value can be obtained using the proposed interfaces as 
> part of 2nd range.
> mac_propval_range {
> count = 2,
> MAC_PROPVAL_UINT32,
> {
> 	1500-9000
> 	8150-8150
> }
> }
> 
> ~Girish

Yes, that is a perfectly simple and effective
approach that addresses what I was getting at.

-Mike

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Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Open Storage / Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/