I was perusing Documentation/networking/bonding.txt in a 2.6.23-rc5 tree
and came across the following discussing the round-robin scheduling:
Note that this out of order delivery occurs when both the
sending and receiving systems are utilizing a multiple
interface bond. Consider a configuration in which a
balance-rr bond feeds into a single higher capacity network
channel (e.g., multiple 100Mb/sec ethernets feeding a single
gigabit ethernet via an etherchannel capable switch). In this
configuration, traffic sent from the multiple 100Mb devices to
a destination connected to the gigabit device will not see
packets out of order.
My first reaction was that this was incorrect - it didn't matter if the
receiver was using a single link or not because the packets flowing
across the multiple 100Mb links could hit the intermediate device out of
order and so stay that way across the GbE link.
Before I go and patch-out that text I thought I'd double check.
rick jones
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