I use bonded interfaces to gain both performance and high availability.
They are bonded using the the standard ifenslave tool, and vblade is
given the bonded interface as an argument.
torbjorn@storage01:~$ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.5.0 (November 4, 2008)
Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 200
Down Delay (ms): 200
Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:bc:75:78
Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:bc:75:79
Slave Interface: eth4
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:bc:75:7a
Slave Interface: eth5
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:bc:75:7b
torbjorn@storage01:~$ /sbin/ifconfig bond0
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:bc:75:78
inet addr:192.168.51.101 Bcast:192.168.51.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:17ff:febc:7578/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:5202607046 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4708718223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:14232969909992 (12.9 TiB) TX bytes:5319127005580 (4.8 TiB)
torbjorn@storage01:~$ /sbin/ifconfig | grep ^eth[2345] -A 5
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:bc:75:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:1653636113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1177188864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4537176921780 (4.1 TiB) TX bytes:1329783935402 (1.2 TiB)
--
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:bc:75:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:125220313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1177189418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7513221780 (6.9 GiB) TX bytes:1329658846002 (1.2 TiB)
--
eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:bc:75:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:125826641 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1177188746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7549598460 (7.0 GiB) TX bytes:1329800860964 (1.2 TiB)
--
eth5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:bc:75:78
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1
RX packets:3297962070 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1177189269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9680870058968 (8.8 TiB) TX bytes:1329901758876 (1.2 TiB)
As we can see from the RX/TX stats, traffic isn't balanced 100%
between the interfaces,
and I'm not sure why that is. This setup works quite nicely for now, though.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Jesse Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:37:23AM -0400, Charles Chou wrote:
>>Hi,
>> How would you start vblade on the target side to use multiple
>>interfaces?
>
> I don't use vblade, but I did take a quick look at the source code
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aoetools/files/vblade/20/vblade-20.tgz/download).
> It looks like it only supports one interface.
>
> One of the other target implementations (kvblade, qaoed) may support
> multiple interfaces.
>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Charles Chou
>>
>>On 5/17/2012 8:17 AM, Jesse Becker wrote:
>>> By default, the aoe drivers will allow aoe traffic on all interfaces
>>> that are detected. This can be restricted either at module load time
>>> using the "aoe_iflist=...." option, or the "aoe-interfaces" command
>>> after the fact.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:46:30PM -0400, Charles Chou wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Yes I do see that. I just don't know how to find out what "all
>>>> available ports" are and how many, or if this is a configurable
>>>> parameter.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Charles Chou
>>>> On 5/16/2012 11:01 PM, Roland Kletzing wrote:
>>>> The blog entry where this picture is from tells, that multiple ports
>>>> being used automatically:
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.millennia.it/a-comparison-of-aoe-to-fc-and-iscsi-protocols
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Alexandre<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:29 AM
>>>> To: Charles Chou<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Cc:
>>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AOE ports
>>>>
>>>> It depends on the AoE target implementation you're using.
>>>>
>>>> regards.
>>>>
>>>> 2012/5/17 Charles Chou
>>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> In the diagram I found below it shows how a 64K IO is broken into
>>>> 8x8K blocks and transferred to the AOE target via 4 ports. Can someone
>>>> kindly show me how to configured the AOE to use multiple ports? Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.millennia.it/images/AoE_delivery.png
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Charles Chou
>>>>
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