netdev - Re: [patch net-next V8] net: introduce ethernet teaming device

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Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:22:47 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
CC:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
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	ivecera@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next V8] net: introduce ethernet teaming device

> On most modern systems I suspect there will be little to no difference
> between bonding RX peformance and team performance.
>
> If there is any now, I suspect team and bond performance to be similar
> by the time team has to account for the corner-cases bonding has already
> resolved.  :-)
>
> Benchmarks may prove otherwise, but I've yet to see Jiri produce
> anything.  My initial testing doesn't demonstrate any measureable
> differences with 1Gbps interfaces on a multi-core, multi-socket system.

I wouldn't expect much difference in terms of bandwidth, I was thinking 
the demonstration would be made in the area of service demand (CPU 
consumed per unit work) and perhaps aggregate packets per second.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones
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