From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp008.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com ([IPv6:::ffff:66.163.170.74]:37537 "HELO smtp008.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:55:41 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (ppopov@embeddedalley.com@63.194.214.47 with plain) by smtp008.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 18:55:39 -0000 Message-ID: <42406A2D.6020905@embeddedalley.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:55:41 -0800 From: Pete Popov Reply-To: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Organization: Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gilad Rom CC: "'linux-mips@linux-mips.org'" Subject: Re: Au1500 and 1Gbps References: <42406706.90409@romat.com> <42406826.2040302@embeddedalley.com> <4240693E.3060207@romat.com> In-Reply-To: <4240693E.3060207@romat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 7509 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: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Gilad Rom wrote: >>> >>> Any insight? can the Au1500 even try to handle 1000Mbps? >> >> >> >> Should be easy to get up and running the benchmarked. The Intel 1G >> driver (e100?) should run fine on mips with, hopefully, little or no >> modifications. >> >> Pete > > > Do you see any theoretical limitation on the Au1500 which > would prevent it from utilizing the full 1000Mbps bandwidth? I haven't done any paper napkin calculations on what it takes to handle the smallest packets, worst case, at 1G. It also depends on what else your CPU is doing. If you're just routing packets you'll get a lot better performance then you would if you're busy doing something else. Pete