Re: [patch net-next 00/26] bonding/team offload + mlxsw implementation

Andrew Lunn
2015-12-02T15:27:23Z

> Another question relates to users bonding/teaming netdevice ports from
> different HW switches

We need to be precises here.

DSA allows for a cluster of switches which are interconnected via
switch ports. In this setup, the Marvell switches allows ports of
different switches to be members of a trunk, which is Marvells name
for a bond/team.

The second possible setup would be multiple switch devices which are
not interconnected. Packets would then have to be forwarded from one
switch to another via the CPU when a bond/team is spread across
switches.

Andrew