From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:24:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:24:13 -0400 Received: from dhcp101-dsl-usw4.w-link.net ([208.161.125.101]:16855 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:24:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA4D80E.8090707@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:29:50 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Greear CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: tg3 (netgear 302t) performance numbers References: <3DA4D383.1010006@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Greear wrote: > pktgen (kernel pkt generator module): > 60-byte packets, sending 1kpps in one direction, and maximum possible > in the other. Was able to generate 122,000 packets-per-second. > (A tulip 10/100 NIC can do 140kpps in this configuration) > Average Latency: 22 micro-seconds. > 0 dropped packets over 10+ minute run. An update to this. This previous test, I was allocating a new skbuf each time. For pure pkt crunching (ie sending the same pkt over and over again), the throughput was more like 170kpps. -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear