Re: multiple tcp connections

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Parallelism on end-points could be another reasons.

A long time ago when running some benchmarks we achieved considerably
better numbers with 4 sockets than with one.

This type of result repeated itself in different contexts and with
different stacks.

That is probably due to some serialization that is inherent in the way
stacks are built
and API's are used (this is a long discussion subject).

With SMPs the differences are even more striking.

Julo

Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com> on 08/07/2000 02:11:57

Please respond to Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>

To:   Randy Haagens <Randy_Haagens@hp.com>, Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL
cc:
Subject:  multiple tcp connections




Hi,

I was asked the question:

If there is only 1 MAC (available to the system), would there ever be more
than 1 tcp connection per iSCSI session.  I couldn't think of a good reason
why there would be, but thought I'd ask you. The only reason I could think
of
using multiple tcp connections per iSCSI session was for port aggregation
when
there are multiple MACs available.  Any comments?

Thanks,

-Matt