Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:45:33 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Poor Performance for ethernet bonding |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:19:50AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > Couldn't the bonding code be made to distribute pkts to one interface or > > another based on a hash of the sending IP port or something? Seems like that > > would fix the reordering problem for IP packets.... It wouldn't help for > > a single stream, but I'm guessing the real world problem involves many streams, > > which on average should hash such that the load is balanced... > > It could, but then it is already implemented in a better way in multipath > routing and I see no reason to duplicate the functionality. >
On the surface, multi-path routing sounds complicated to me, while layer-2 bonding seems relatively trivial to set up/administer. Since we do support bonding, if it's a simple fix to make it better, we might as well do that, eh?
I haven't used either, so this is just idle supposition on my part...
Ben
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