On Tuesday, 11/20/2007 at 12:32 EST, Bill Bitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One should not expect Link Aggregation to improve the > performance of a single Vnic talking to a single target. > The packets associated with a single conversation (probably > not the right term) are not shuffled across the different > OSAs or spread across them. We do spread different > conversations across different OSAs with load balancing. > The z/VM Performance Report has additional details:
Trying to send multiple TCP segments on different OSAs concurrently increases the liklihood that they will arrive out of order at the other end, and the time you saved pushing them onto the network will be undone by the reordering that will have to be done. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
