Bonding balance-alb (mode 6) transmit performance is worse in RHEL 7.4
Issue
- After updating to a RHEL 7.4 series kernel (3.10.0-693.el7) there is a regression in the transmit performance of a balance-alb mode 6 bond.
- The bond only appears to only ever use a single slave at a time to transmit traffic.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- Bonding balance-alb mode 6
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