[Gluster-devel] Custom Transport layers

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 31/10/2016 5:56 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>
> > I'd like to experiment with broadcast udp to see if its feasible in 
> local networks. It would be amazing if we could write at 1GB speeds 
> simultaneously to all nodes.
> >
>
> Is you have replica 3 and set a 3 nic bonded interface with 
> balance-alb on the gluster client,  you are able to use the 3 nics 
> simultaneously writing at 1gb on each node.
>

But you can broadcast with UDP - one packet of data through one nic to 
all nodes, so in theory you could broadcast 1GB *per nic* or 3GB via 
three nics. Minus overhead for acks, nacks and ordering :)


But I'm not sure it would work at all in practice now through a switch.

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Lindsay Mathieson