--- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote: > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > 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. > > This has always confused me. Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread all the > traffic over all > the links? This would allow for a single stream to use the full aggregate bandwidth of > all bonded > links. Because then you risk heavy packet reordering within an individual flow, which can be detrimental in some cases. --karthik __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com - : 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
