From: Cacophonix <cacophonix@yahoo.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:22:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020913222213.69396.qmail@web14006.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D81F64B.11182FB1@nortelnetworks.com>
--- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> "David S. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > Bonding does not help with single stream performance.
> > You have to have multiple apps generating multiple streams
> > of data before you'll realize any improvement.
> > Therefore netpipe is a bad test for what you're doing.
>
> This has always confused me. Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread all the
> traffic over all
> the links? This would allow for a single stream to use the full aggregate bandwidth of
> all bonded
> links.
Because then you risk heavy packet reordering within an individual flow,
which can be detrimental in some cases.
--karthik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 18:39 bonding vs 802.3ad/Cisco EtherChannel link agregation Boris Protopopov
2002-09-12 23:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-13 14:29 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-13 22:22 ` Cacophonix [this message]
2002-09-16 13:23 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-16 16:09 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-16 19:55 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-16 21:10 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-16 21:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-16 21:22 ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-16 21:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-17 10:16 ` jamal
2002-09-17 16:43 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-18 1:07 ` jamal
2002-09-18 4:06 ` Ben Greear
2002-09-18 11:48 ` jamal
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-13 1:30 Feldman, Scott
2002-09-13 14:50 ` Boris Protopopov
2002-09-16 20:12 Yan-Fa Li
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