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Subject: Re: e1000 full-duplex TCP performance well below wire speed
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>>Sounds like tools to show PCI* bus utilization would be helpful...
> 
> 
> that would be a hardware profiling thing and highly dependent on the part sticking
> out of the slot, vendor bus implementation etc... Perhaps Intel has some tools for
> this already but I personally do not know of any :/

Small matter of getting specs for the various LBA's (is that the correct 
term? - lower bus adaptors) and then abstracting them a la the CPU perf 
counters as done by say perfmon and then used by papi :)

rick jones