From: "James R. Leu" <jleu@mindspring.com>
To: Harish Kulkarni <hari@cosystech.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Network Device-Driver/Layer Implementation: Help required
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:35:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021031103549.A6846@nero.doit.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKDONILLOCGDCFLLIAEALCGAA.hari@cosystech.com>; from hari@cosystech.com on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:25:18PM +0530
What L2 protocols will it support? This will determin how you present it to
the network stack. At a minimum it will have to create a net_device which
has all sorts of function pointers in it that you will have to implement.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:25:18PM +0530, Harish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have a T1/E1 device driver: ( completed till PCI initialization and other
> device-internals initialization,including interrupts handling procedures),
> now i am not understanding how to provide the interface to upper layers?. I
> have walked through the lapb-module.txt and some code of IPX, but still the
> things are not clear. Can any one help/guide me?
> -Thanks
> Hari
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com [mailto:netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com]On
> > Behalf Of Robert Olsson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:33 AM
> > To: Cheng Jin
> > Cc: jamal; netdev@oss.sgi.com
> > Subject: Re: Linux SMP on 2.4.18-3
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheng Jin writes:
> >
> > > Out of curiosity, what is the maximum send rate (pps) under Linux
> > > 2.4.18-3? I read in the paper that sending across two Intel
> > Gbe with one
> > > CPU gets up to 36o Kpps.
> >
> > Yes forwarding performance...
> >
> > A good chip/driver can itself do a lot more. I have seen very
> > decent numbers
> > with e1000, tg3 and dl2k. For FE tulip has been a top performer for long
> > time but I also now see 144 kpps from my laptop w. 3c59x driver.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > --ro
> >
> >
> >
>
--
James R. Leu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-31 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-27 8:27 Linux SMP on 2.4.18-3 Cheng Jin
2002-10-28 12:47 ` jamal
2002-10-28 18:26 ` Cheng Jin
2002-10-30 19:03 ` Robert Olsson
2002-10-31 7:55 ` Network Device-Driver/Layer Implementation: Help required Harish Kulkarni
2002-10-31 16:35 ` James R. Leu [this message]
2002-11-04 13:10 ` Linux SMP on 2.4.18-3 jamal
2002-10-30 1:40 ` Boris Protopopov
2002-10-30 1:54 ` Jeff Garzik
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