From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: [patch net-next V8] net: introduce ethernet teaming device Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:22:47 -0800 Message-ID: <4EC29FE7.70904@hp.com> References: <1321085808-6871-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> <4EC160B4.2040709@hp.com> <20111115015616.GA25132@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Pirko , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, tgraf@infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, mirqus@gmail.com, kaber@trash.net, greearb@candelatech.com, jesse@nicira.com, fbl@redhat.com, benjamin.poirier@gmail.com, jzupka@redhat.com, ivecera@redhat.com To: Andy Gospodarek Return-path: Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:36174 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756836Ab1KORWu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:22:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111115015616.GA25132@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > On most modern systems I suspect there will be little to no difference > between bonding RX peformance and team performance. > > If there is any now, I suspect team and bond performance to be similar > by the time team has to account for the corner-cases bonding has already > resolved. :-) > > Benchmarks may prove otherwise, but I've yet to see Jiri produce > anything. My initial testing doesn't demonstrate any measureable > differences with 1Gbps interfaces on a multi-core, multi-socket system. I wouldn't expect much difference in terms of bandwidth, I was thinking the demonstration would be made in the area of service demand (CPU consumed per unit work) and perhaps aggregate packets per second. happy benchmarking, rick jones