2009/235 dladm Possible Values List

[Sebastien Roy]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:33 -0700, 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.

I'd like to make a suggestion unrelated to the technical merits of this
idea.  There is value in this fast-track as-is, on its own.  If there is
value in the "optimal MTU" idea, then it can also stand on its own (as
Mike said, it could potentially be a separate read-only property).
Therefore, the least contentious way forward would be to approve this
case as-is while discussing the optimal MTU idea outside the context of
this case (on networking-discuss at opensolaris.org for example).  If
people can agree on a proposal for this, then it would be simple enough
to file a small fast-track for it separately.

-Seb