Chris Friesen wrote:
Cacophonix wrote:
--- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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