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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: small RPS cache for fragments?
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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:38:48 -0700

> Isn't there still an issue (perhaps small) of traffic being sent through
> a mode-rr bond, either at the origin or somewhere along the way?  At the
> origin point will depend on the presence of UFO and whether it is
> propagated up through the bond interface, but as a quick test, I
> disabled TSO, GSO and UFO on four e1000e driven interfaces, bonded them
> mode-rr and ran a netperf UDP_RR test with a 1473 byte request size and
> this is what they looked like at my un-bonded reciever at the other end:
> 
> 14:31:01.011370 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 24960, offset 1480, flags
> [none], proto UDP (17), length 21)
>     tardy.local > raj-8510w.local: udp
> 14:31:01.011420 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 24960, offset 0, flags [+],
> proto UDP (17), length 1500)
>     tardy.local.36073 > raj-8510w.local.59951: UDP, length 1473
> 14:31:01.011514 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto
> UDP (17), length 29)
>     raj-8510w.local.59951 > tardy.local.36073: UDP, length 1

That's not good behavior, and it's of course going to cause sub-optimal
performance if we do the RPS fragment cache.

RR bond mode could do something similar, to alleviate this.

I assume it doesn't do this kind of reordering for TCP.