2009/235 dladm Possible Values List

[Garrett D'Amore]

Sebastien Roy wrote:
> 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.
>   

Agreed.  I'll give a +1 to the case *as specified*, without Mike's RFE.

    -- Garrett