From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Vosburgh Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:55:49 -0800 Message-ID: <23278.1383756949@death.nxdomain> References: <1383655902-18744-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, andy@greyhouse.net, vfalico@redhat.com To: Nikolay Aleksandrov Return-path: Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:37104 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739Ab3KFQz6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:55:58 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 09:55:57 -0700 Received: from b01cxnp22036.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01cxnp22036.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.198.26]) by d01dlp01.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB3138C8027 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:55:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by b01cxnp22036.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id rA6GtqC71835512 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 16:55:52 GMT Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id rA6GtpCB018927 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:55:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <1383655902-18744-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nikolay Aleksandrov 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 --- -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com