Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

David S. Miller
2002-09-11T15:18:38Z

From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 11 Sep 2002 09:06:36 -0600

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:

> We can push about 420MB/s of IO out of this thing (out of that
> theoretical 800Mb/s).

Sounds about average for a P3. I have pushed the full 800MiB/s out of
a P3 processor to memory but it was a very optimized loop.

You pushed that over the PCI bus of your P3? Just to RAM
doesn't count, lots of cpu's can do that.

That's what makes his number interesting.