Re: [Gems-users] question about link utilization

[Niket Agarwal <niketa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two switches connected to each other will have two different "physical" 
links in opposite directions.
But why should the link utilizations be the same ? The traffic that is 
going in either direction has to be exactly the same for this.
- Niket

Zhang Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering how the intra-chip switches connect to each other. As I 
> understand that, when the 2 intra-chip switches are connect, they 
> share wo links (different direction). In this case, the certain 
> connected links for these two switches should have the same link 
> utilization. However, when I check with the statistics, I could not 
> find different links with same utilization. Do I misunderstand the 
> connection between the switches? Can somebody explain this?
> Thanks,
> Yu
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