From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, andy@greyhouse.net,
vfalico@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:55:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23278.1383756949@death.nxdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383655902-18744-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com>
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> wrote:
>This small patchset adds a new option called packets_per_slave to the
>bonding which aims to extend round-robin mode with the following effects:
>0 - choose the slave id at random
>1 - packet per slave (standard round-robin, default option value)
> >1 - transmit >1 packets per slave, switch the slaves in round-robin
>Patch02 adds a description for the new option to the bonding documentation.
Could you explain why this is useful? My guess is that you're
trying to synchronize with the packet receive processing of a peer
(perhaps for GRO?), but I think it would be useful to explain the
utility of this.
-J
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-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 12:51 [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-05 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode with packets_per_slave Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-06 13:47 ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-11-05 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: document the new packets_per_slave option Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-06 16:55 ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2013-11-06 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-11-07 20:12 ` David Miller
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