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From: Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
To: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Channel bonding with e1000
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C24518.2090500@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080905213606.0b4e246a.billfink@mindspring.com>

Hi all,

Bill Fink wrote:
> Also check the respective PCI buses of the onboard NICs versus the
> addon NICs.  If one is PCI versus PCI-X or PCI-E, or are different
> speeds or bus widths, this can obviously significantly impact
> performance, especially when doing bonding.

I need to go back to Supermicro's manual for that one. The add-on ones
are definitely PCIe.

> 
> Of course nothing beats some quick performance tests to determine
> which is the better performing combination.
> 

Wisely put :)

Thanks for the input so far. We will start some testing sooner rather
than later to get more out of our file servers!

Cheers

Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-06  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-05  8:36 Channel bonding with e1000 Carsten Aulbert
2008-09-05 14:37 ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-09-06  1:36 ` Bill Fink
2008-09-06  8:53   ` Carsten Aulbert [this message]
2008-09-08 18:37 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-09-09  6:21   ` Carsten Aulbert

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