netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: added 802.3ad round-robin hashing policy for single TCP session balancing

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Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:12:12 +0300
From:	"Oleg V. Ukhno" <olegu@...dex-team.ru>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: added 802.3ad round-robin hashing policy for
 single TCP session balancing



John Fastabend wrote:

> 
> I think you want this patch against net-next not 2.6.37.
This patch is against  2.6.37-git11 and I've tried to apply it to 
net-next - it applied ok
> 
> Oleg, sorry but I don't follow. If this is simply sending every next packet
> via "next" slave interface how are packets not going to get out of order? If
> the links have different RTT this would seem problematic.
> 
> Have you considered using multipath at the block layer? This is how I generally
> handle load balancing over iSCSI/FCoE and it works reasonably well.
> 
> see ./drivers/md/dm-mpath.c

John, the first solution I was using a long time for ISCSI load 
balancing was multipath. But there are some problems with dm-multipath:
- it is slow(I am using ISCSI for Oracle , so I need to minimize latency)
- it handles any link failures bad, because of it's command queue 
limitation(all queued commands above 32 are discarded in case of path 
failure, as I remember)
- it performs very bad when there are many devices and maтy paths(I was 
unable to utilize more that 2Gbps of 4 even with 100 disks with 4 paths 
per each disk)

My patch won't work correct when slave links have different RTT, this is 
true - it is usable only within one ethernet segment with equal/near 
equal RTT. This is it's limitation.


>> +static int bond_xmit_hash_policy_rr(struct sk_buff *skb,
>> +				   struct net_device *bond_dev, int count)
> 
> Here's one reason why this won't work on net-next-2.6.
> 
> int      (*xmit_hash_policy)(struct sk_buff *, int);

Thank you, I've missed that change.

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 

-- 
Best reagrds,
Oleg Ukhno
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