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From: P@draigBrady.com
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	"'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7 tulip performance (with NAPI)
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:25:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41665CF9.3060001@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041007234413.GC24969@xi.wantstofly.org>

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:11:47PM +0200, Robert Olsson wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm interested if anyone has done any pktgen performance tests with
>> w. S2IO or other 10G card we need to upgrade the lab equipment. 
>> Both 64 byte pkts and MTU sized pkts is interesting.  Anyone?
> 
> 
> If you're interested in raw pps numbers and willing to use something
> other than pktgen to attain them, you might want to look into the intel
> IXP-based boards.  You actually have to write some microcode and upload
> it to an on-chip processor array, but you can easily sustain wirespeed
> at 4Gbps (IXP2400-based) or 10Gbps (IXP2800-based.)

Good suggestion. This is exactly what I'm doing on a (2400 based)
radisys enp-2611 board. Faced with the cost of a smartbits it's
a no brainer for me. I haven't written the µ code yet btw.

Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-08  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 23:42 2.6.7 tulip performance (with NAPI) Ben Greear
2004-10-06 19:21 ` Robert Olsson
2004-10-06 21:37   ` Ben Greear
2004-10-07  0:56     ` Ben Greear
2004-10-07  1:08       ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07 18:09         ` Ben Greear
2004-10-11  4:07           ` David S. Miller
2004-10-07 21:11       ` Robert Olsson
2004-10-07 21:47         ` Ben Greear
2004-10-07 22:13           ` Robert Olsson
2004-10-07 23:44         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-08  9:25           ` P [this message]
2004-10-08  9:28             ` Lennert Buytenhek

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