[e2e] Open the floodgate - back to 1st principles

[Aroon Nataraj]

Injong Rhee wrote:

>Then again, use of multiple flows is sometimes the only option with the
>current NIC
>performance. The current NIC (10Gbps) only gives around 2-3Gbps (if you are
>a nice
>guy, you might get 4-6Gbps :-). With this NIC performance, acheiving
>something like the
>full bandwidth util. of  tens of Gbps is not possible. You need to use
>multiple NICs to achieve this. This end-host (NIC) bottleneck forces you to
>use multiple flows anyway...now the question is back to square one...
>
>  
>
Actually using multiple NICs doesnt require multiple TCP level flows - 
[bonding/teaming/aggregation of NICs] -- work at layer-2, to TCP  the 
'team' would appear as a single interface.