From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:31:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rex.snapgear.com ([203.143.235.140]:13700 "EHLO cyberguard.com.au") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20037841AbWKTLbm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:31:42 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hex.internal.moreton.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331B5EBA59 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:31:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from hex.internal.moreton.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bne.snapgear.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22815-10 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:31:31 +1000 (EST) Received: from beast (davidm0.sw.moreton.com.au [10.46.1.20]) by hex.internal.moreton.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:31:31 +1000 (EST) Received: by beast (Postfix, from userid 1012) id C9731161C056; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:31:50 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:31:50 +1000 From: David McCullough To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: a1500 Performance query ? Message-ID: <20061120113150.GA15277@au.securecomputing.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at snapgear.com 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: 13224 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: david_mccullough@au.securecomputing.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi all, I just put together a 2.6.18 image on an older Bosporus board (400MHz au1500) and I am a bit disappointed with the networking performance. The few stats I have seen suggest that it should easily be doing 100Mbps of networking throughput, but I am seeing less than 60Mbps using either the onboard NIC's or a dual Intel e1000. I am running a fairly stock 2.6.18 compiled with mipsel-linux-gcc version 3.4.6. Full netfilter firewall setup doing a through box (all kernel mode) test. The original BSP came with 2.4.21 and gcc 3.2.1 (mips_fp_le-gcc?) if that is significant. Linux reports CPU of 396MHz, CPUPLL and POWERCTRL registers are set for full speed and the RAM is running at the right speed (checked with an analyser). I expected the board to perform much better and figured something obvious must be wrong. Hopefully someone who knows these boards better has some ideas :-) Thanks, Davidm -- David McCullough, david_mccullough@securecomputing.com, Ph:+61 734352815 Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com