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Re: Why don't I get a performance increase with the linux bonding driver in balance-alb mode in a "local network" configuration?
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:16:59 -0500 (EST)
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Did you ask your question/search on the Beowulf ML? This one seems familiar and is a
recurrent theme on that ML.
Eric
> I've got the following system:
>
> Linux server 2.6.26 #5 SMP Fri Feb 6 12:18:54 CST 2009 ppc64 PPC970FX,
> altivec supported RackMac3,1 GNU/Linux
>
> Setup on a cisco gig switch with both gigabit NICs in the following setup:
>
> % cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
> Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.5 (March 21, 2008)
>
> Bonding Mode: adaptive load balancing
> Primary Slave: None
> Currently Active Slave: eth0
> MII Status: up
> MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
> Up Delay (ms): 0
> Down Delay (ms): 0
>
> Slave Interface: eth0
> MII Status: up
> Link Failure Count: 0
> Permanent HW addr: 00:0d:93:9e:2b:ca
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> Slave Interface: eth1
> MII Status: up
> Link Failure Count: 0
> Permanent HW addr: 00:0d:93:9e:2b:cb
>
> Both eth0 and eth1 are running at 1000Mb/s full according to ethtool.
> I start netserver (from netperf) on the server and then run netperf on
> four other singlegigabit connected clients on the same switch with:
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> netperf -l 45 -t TCP_STREAM -H server
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> but I get the following outputs:
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> client 1:
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> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
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> 87380 16384 16384 45.04 405.68
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> client 2:
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> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
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> 87380 16384 16384 45.01 216.07
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> client 3:
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> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
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> 87380 16384 16384 45.87 143.93
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> client 4:
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> Recv Send Send
> Socket Socket Message Elapsed
> Size Size Size Time Throughput
> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
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> 87380 16384 16384 45.05 164.05
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> adding those up gives me:
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> $ echo "405.68+216.07+143.93+164.05" | bc -l
> 929.73
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> Not more than 1gbps. Shouldn't I be able to get >> 1gbps with balance-alb mode?
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