Jivin Vrabete, Brad lays it down ...
> Hi Dave,
>
> According to this white paper (http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ocf.pdf), there
> should be a some load balancing mechanism available. Is your version based
> on FreeBSD or OpenBSD? (Are they different?)
ocf-linux is based on the FreeBSD version, which is based on the
OpenBSD version. A link off the ocf-linux home page points to a paper
on the changes in the FreeBSD version, which seemed reasonable, and
prompted using that version.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/leffler_crypto/leffler_crypto.pdf
Just checked the code and yes, it does do session based load balancing.
Just search for cc_sessions in crypto.c, easy to see it looking for
the best driver to use, and using cc_sessions (number of sessions per
driver) to find a better match.
Cheers,
Davidm
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David McCullough [mailto:Dav...@se...]
> >Sent: 19 February 2009 04:33
> >To: Vrabete, Brad
> >Cc: ocf...@li...
> >Subject: Re: Load balancing in OCF
> >
> >
> >Jivin Vrabete, Brad lays it down ...
> >> Hi Dave,
> >>
> >> Is load balancing supported in the Linux version of OCF? The FreeBSD
> >> documentation states that it is supported there.
> >
> >For how long ?
> >
> >I checked just recently, the FreeBSD code looked like it
> >hadn't changed from the last OCF release.
> >
> >There is a form of "too busy try the next device" thing. Not
> >exactly load balancing IMO.
> >
> >Do you have a pointer to the doc ? If it looks different I
> >will double check te hOCF code base is up to date,
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Davidm
> >
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