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| author | Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> | 2014-04-22 16:30:22 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-04-24 13:04:34 -0400 |
| commit | e9f0fb88493570200b8dc1cc02d3e676412d25bc (patch) | |
| tree | edd781d8c00772c53e0736a95cf26f0ef2e620dc /drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | |
| parent | f05b42eaa22cd7c6736d31316e6046c5127f8721 (diff) | |
bonding: Add tlb_dynamic_lb parameter for tlb mode
The aggresive load balancing causes packet re-ordering as active
flows are moved from a slave to another within the group. Sometime
this aggresive lb is not necessary if the preference is for less
re-ordering. This parameter if used with value "0" disables
this dynamic flow shuffling minimizing packet re-ordering. Of course
the side effect is that it has to live with the static load balancing
that the hashing distribution provides. This impact is less severe if
the correct xmit-hashing-policy is used for the tlb setup.
The default value of the parameter is set to "1" mimicing the earlier
behavior.
Ran the netperf test with 200 stream for 1 min between two hosts with
4x1G trunk (xmit-lb mode with xmit-policy L3+4) before and after these
changes. Following was the command used for those 200 instances -
netperf -t TCP_RR -l 60 -s 5 -H <host> -- -r81920,81920
Transactions per second:
Before change: 1,367.11
After change: 1,470.65
Change-Id: Ie3f75c77282cf602e83a6e833c6eb164e72a0990
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 1fd32a16cbc5..9d08e007d853 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -3096,7 +3096,8 @@ static int bond_open(struct net_device *bond_dev) */ if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_ALB))) return -ENOMEM; - queue_delayed_work(bond->wq, &bond->alb_work, 0); + if (bond->params.tlb_dynamic_lb) + queue_delayed_work(bond->wq, &bond->alb_work, 0); } if (bond->params.miimon) /* link check interval, in milliseconds. */ @@ -4304,6 +4305,7 @@ static int bond_check_params(struct bond_params *params) params->min_links = min_links; params->lp_interval = lp_interval; params->packets_per_slave = packets_per_slave; + params->tlb_dynamic_lb = 1; /* Default value */ if (packets_per_slave > 0) { params->reciprocal_packets_per_slave = reciprocal_value(packets_per_slave); |