Dawid Ciezarkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>+ weighted-rr or 7
>+
>+ Weighted round-robin bonding. In this mode bonding
>+ interface will use weights assigned to it's slaves.
>+
>+ Each slave can have weight assigned via ioctl (ifenslave).
>+ These values will be used at the start of each "cycle".
>+ Each slave will have token counter restored to it's weight.
>+ Then using round-robin mechanism those tokens are "used"
>+ to pay for emitted frames. When all token counters are
>+ zeroed - new "cycle" begins.
Before getting into the technical bits of the patch, what's the
reason for wanting to do this, and why is this rather complex manual
weight assignment better than an automatic system based on, e.g., link
speed of the slaves?
-J
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