Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay Vosburgh wrote: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? Nope, I'm doing a doc update next to incorporate several things, the reordering stuff included (which I plan to change to describe the

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are >we at an impass? Nope, I'm doing a doc update next to incorporate several things, the reordering stuff included (which I plan to change to describe the levels of badness, as

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Jay - So, where do you and I stand wrt the proposed changes to bonding.txt? Are we at an impass? sincerely, rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-in

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
2- next worst is "balance-rr many slow" to "single fast", with the reordering rate generally being substantially lower than case #1 (it looked like your test showed about a 1% reordering rate, if I'm reading your data correctly). The percentage of reordering for TCP is likely capped by i

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
Jay Vosburgh wrote: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to wonder if the full description of the different versions of being a little bit pregnant is worth it. Just saying that using balance-rr will result in reordering seems much more simple to comprehend. True, but the d

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have to wonder if the full description of the different versions of >being a little bit pregnant is worth it. Just saying that using >balance-rr will result in reordering seems much more simple to comprehend. True, but the different configuration

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
Jay Vosburgh wrote: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] - Note that this out of order delivery occurs when both the - sending and receiving systems are utilizing a multiple - interface bond. Consider a configuration in which a - balance-rr bond feeds into a sing

Re: [PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >- Note that this out of order delivery occurs when both the >- sending and receiving systems are utilizing a multiple >- interface bond. Consider a configuration in which a >- balance-rr bond feeds into a single higher capacity netwo

[PATCH] remove claim balance_rr won't reorder on many to one

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
Remove the text which suggests that many balance_rr links feeding into a single uplink will not experience packet reordering. More up-to-date tests, with 1G links feeding into a switch with a 10G uplink, using a 2.6.23-rc8 kernel on the system on which the 1G links were bonded with balance_rr (mod