Onload supports a proprietary TCP striping mechanism that allows a single TCP connection to use both physical ports of a network adapter. Using the combined bandwidth of both ports means increased throughput for TCP streaming applications. TCP striping can be particularly beneficial for Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications.
If the TCP connection’s source IP address and destination IP address are on the same subnet as defined by EF_STRIPE_NETMASK then Onload will attempt to negotiate TCP striping for the connection. Onload TCP striping must be configured at both ends of the link.
TCP striping allows a single TCP connection to use the full bandwidth of both physical ports on the same adapter. This should not be confused with link aggregation/port bonding in which any one TCP connection within the bond can only use a single physical port and therefore more than one TCP connection would be required to realize the full bandwidth of two physical ports.