> Bonding does not help with single stream performance. > You have to have multiple apps generating multiple streams > of data before you'll realize any improvement. > Therefore netpipe is a bad test for what you're doing. The analogy that I like is to imagine a culvert under your driveway and you want to fill up the ditch on the other side, so you stick your garden hose in the culvert. The rate of water flow is good, but you're just not utilizing the volume (bandwidth) of the culvert. So you stick your neighbors garden hose in the culvert. And so on. Now the ditch is filling up. So stick a bunch of garden hoses (streams) into that culvert (gigabit) and flood it to the point of saturation, and now measure the efficiency of the system (CPU %) How much CPU is left to do other useful work? The lower the CPU utilization, the higher the efficiency of the system. Ok, the analogy is corny, and it doesn't have anything to do with bonding, but you'd be surprise how often this question comes up. -scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
