From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:12:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:22283 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:12:12 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6C7D7mR002013; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:13:07 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6BMRtdB002980; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:27:55 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:27:55 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Current SGI Octane status Message-ID: <20050711222755.GA2952@linux-mips.org> References: <20050709093403.GB1586@hattusa.textio> <20050709212029.GG1586@hattusa.textio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050709212029.GG1586@hattusa.textio> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8450 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:20:29PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Stanislaw Skowronek wrote: > > > - IOC3 networking works, with 2MB/s maximum for a 30MB http transfer > > > > This is strange. Ask Ralf. > > Up to 2.5 Mb actually. Still well below wat it should be. I suspect it may be related to the RRB allocation. The driver used to be even slower until I made it use a second RRB by using the BRIDGE virtual device feature. Obviously all the funky RRB stuff of the BRIDGE has no public documentation. However the SN1 / SN2 bits in the kernel tree should be rather close. Ralf