From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Channel bonding with e1000 Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:53:44 +0200 Message-ID: <48C24518.2090500@aei.mpg.de> References: <48C0EF8A.9070103@aei.mpg.de> <20080905213606.0b4e246a.billfink@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Fink Return-path: Received: from welcomes-you.com ([85.214.50.128]:32924 "EHLO smtp.welcomes-you.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752203AbYIFIxu (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:53:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080905213606.0b4e246a.billfink@mindspring.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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