Chris Friesen wrote: > Cacophonix wrote: > >>--- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote: > > >>>This has always confused me. Why doesn't the bonding driver try and spread >>>all the traffic over all the links? >> >>Because then you risk heavy packet reordering within an individual flow, >>which can be detrimental in some cases. >>--karthik > > > I can see how it could make the receiving host work more on reassembly, but if throughput is key, > wouldn't you still end up better if you can push twice as many packets through the pipe? > > Chris Also, I notice lots of out-of-order packets on a single gigE link when running at high speeds (SMP machine), so the kernel is still having to reorder quite a few packets. Has anyone done any tests to see how much worse it is with dual-port bonding? NAPI helps my problem, but does not make it go away entirely. Ben > -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - : 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
