--- Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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