netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode

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Message-ID: <23278.1383756949@death.nxdomain>
Date:	Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:55:49 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, andy@...yhouse.net,
	vfalico@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: extend round-robin mode

Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com> wrote:

>This small patchset adds a new option called packets_per_slave to the
>bonding which aims to extend round-robin mode with the following effects:
>0 - choose the slave id at random
>1 - packet per slave (standard round-robin, default option value)
> >1 - transmit >1 packets per slave, switch the slaves in round-robin
>Patch02 adds a description for the new option to the bonding documentation.

	Could you explain why this is useful?  My guess is that you're
trying to synchronize with the packet receive processing of a peer
(perhaps for GRO?), but I think it would be useful to explain the
utility of this.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com

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