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In general, the system only provides limited load-sharing aggregation resources, so the system needs 
to reasonably allocate the resources among different aggregation groups. 
The system always allocates hardware aggregation resources to the aggregation groups with higher 
priorities. When load-sharing aggregation resources are used up by existing aggregation groups, 
newly-created aggregation groups will be non-load-sharing ones. 
Load-sharing aggregation resources are allocated to aggregation groups in the following order: 
z  An aggregation group containing special ports which require hardware aggregation resources has 
higher priority than any aggregation group containing no special port. 
z  A manual or static aggregation group has higher priority than a dynamic aggregation group (unless 
the latter contains special ports while the former does not). 
z  For aggregation groups, the one that might gain higher speed if resources were allocated to it has 
higher priority than others. If the groups can gain the same speed, the one with smallest master 
port number has higher priority than other groups. 
When an aggregation group of higher priority appears, the aggregation groups of lower priorities 
release their hardware resources. For single-port aggregation groups, they can transceive packets 
normally without occupying aggregation resources 
 
 
A load-sharing aggregation group contains at least two selected ports, but a non-load-sharing 
aggregation group can only have one selected port at most, while others are unselected ports.