Hi Adrian,
On 4/29/07, Adrian Knoth <adi_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:18:01AM -0400, George Bosilca wrote:
[snip]
> BTW: How does multi TCP BTL works? I see num_links, but I wonder if
> kernel channel bonding would achieve the same results...
Unfortunately, kernel channel bonding is very unlikely to achieve the
same results as Open MPI's striping with multi TCP BTL.
Here is a relevant snippet of the documentation for kernel channel bonding:
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balance-rr: This mode is the only mode that will permit a single
TCP/IP connection to stripe traffic across multiple
interfaces. It is therefore the only mode that will allow a
single TCP/IP stream to utilize more than one interface's
worth of throughput. This comes at a cost, however: the
striping often results in peer systems receiving packets out
of order, causing TCP/IP's congestion control system to kick
in, often by retransmitting segments.
========
The Open MPI way avoids this packet reordering problem, since
any individual TCP stream is carried by only a single NIC at either
end of the transmission. Since Open MPI splits the MPI traffic
across multiple TCP streams, additional throughput is possible
without the low-level packet reordering problem.
If you really want to know more about this, I could go on at length,
but I'll spare the rest of the readers on the mailing list for now.
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