From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:45:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:45:32 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:56242 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:45:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3B86769D.17A979D7@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:45:33 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Bernhard Busch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding In-Reply-To: <3B865882.24D57941@biochem.mpg.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <3B867096.3A1D7DE@candelatech.com> <20010824172256.A2531@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:19:50AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > Couldn't the bonding code be made to distribute pkts to one interface or > > another based on a hash of the sending IP port or something? Seems like that > > would fix the reordering problem for IP packets.... It wouldn't help for > > a single stream, but I'm guessing the real world problem involves many streams, > > which on average should hash such that the load is balanced... > > It could, but then it is already implemented in a better way in multipath > routing and I see no reason to duplicate the functionality. > On the surface, multi-path routing sounds complicated to me, while layer-2 bonding seems relatively trivial to set up/administer. Since we do support bonding, if it's a simple fix to make it better, we might as well do that, eh? I haven't used either, so this is just idle supposition on my part... Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear