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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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