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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:58:13 -0500 From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com> To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>, Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>, Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Thomas Davis <tadavis@....gov>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] bonding: add a vlan+srcmac tx hashing option On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:11:45AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 08:30:33PM CET, jarod@...hat.com wrote: > >This comes from an end-user request, where they're running multiple VMs on > >hosts with bonded interfaces connected to some interest switch topologies, > >where 802.3ad isn't an option. They're currently running a proprietary > >solution that effectively achieves load-balancing of VMs and bandwidth > >utilization improvements with a similar form of transmission algorithm. > > > >Basically, each VM has it's own vlan, so it always sends its traffic out > >the same interface, unless that interface fails. Traffic gets split > >between the interfaces, maintaining a consistent path, with failover still > >available if an interface goes down. > > > >This has been rudimetarily tested to provide similar results, suitable for > >them to use to move off their current proprietary solution. > > > >Still on the TODO list, if these even looks sane to begin with, is > >fleshing out Documentation/networking/bonding.rst. > > Jarod, did you consider using team driver instead ? :) That's actually one of the things that was suggested, since team I believe already has support for this, but the user really wants to use bonding. We're finding that a lot of users really still prefer bonding over team. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@...hat.com
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