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Message-ID: <48C24518.2090500@aei.mpg.de>
Date:	Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:53:44 +0200
From:	Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@....mpg.de>
To:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Channel bonding with e1000

Hi all,

Bill Fink wrote:
> Also check the respective PCI buses of the onboard NICs versus the
> addon NICs.  If one is PCI versus PCI-X or PCI-E, or are different
> speeds or bus widths, this can obviously significantly impact
> performance, especially when doing bonding.

I need to go back to Supermicro's manual for that one. The add-on ones
are definitely PCIe.

> 
> Of course nothing beats some quick performance tests to determine
> which is the better performing combination.
> 

Wisely put :)

Thanks for the input so far. We will start some testing sooner rather
than later to get more out of our file servers!

Cheers

Carsten
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