Re: [PATCH 4/4] IB/rxe: exchange the 2 udp ports

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On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 02:42:49PM +0800, Yanjun Zhu wrote:
>
>
> On 2018/5/13 14:36, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 02:22:42PM +0800, Yanjun Zhu wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2018/5/13 14:17, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:05:45AM +0800, Yanjun Zhu wrote:
> > > > > On 2018/5/12 22:55, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:24:03AM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
> > > > > > > On 5/12/2018 9:54 AM, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
> > > > > > > > When udp port 4791 is blocked, the udp port 4891 is used and vice versa.
> > > > > > > Port 4891 is currently unassigned in the IANA registry. Do you intend
> > > > > > > to request this? Strongly suggest that this not merge without such a
> > > > > > > standard.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > The whole idea looks to me like a hack, what will we do once the second
> > > > > > port blocked too? Will we introduce option to add more ports?
> > > > > The second port is a backup. When the first port 4791 is blocked, the port
> > > > > 4891 will be used. At the same time,
> > > > > some cleanup work will be done to make udp port 4791 work again. When 4891
> > > > > is blocked, 4791 is used again.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is like failover in bonding.:-)
> > > > Right, so why don't you use bonding for that?
> > > Based on my test results, there is a performance loss with bonding compared
> > > with this  feature because
> > > the packets will pass bonding driver before directly pass to the real
> > > physical NIC driver.
> > I would like to see results, because RXE performance is far away from
> > the lane rate and it is hard to imagine that something can hurt it even
> > more.
>
> Several weeks, I made tests to compare them. The performance loss is about
> 3%. If you need
> the details, I am glad to make tests again.

IMHO, 3% loss s not worth all this fuss, but let's wait to hear
feedback from other people.

Thanks

>
> Zhu Yanjun
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > > So it is necessary to use this feature.
> > >
> > > Zhu Yanjun
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > > Zhu Yanjun
> > > > > > Thanks
>

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