From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Channel bonding with e1000 Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:21:08 +0200 Message-ID: <48C615D4.30409@aei.mpg.de> References: <48C0EF8A.9070103@aei.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" Return-path: Received: from welcomes-you.com ([85.214.50.128]:55502 "EHLO smtp.welcomes-you.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752643AbYIIGVN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:21:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Jesse, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >> 05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet >> Controller (rev 03) >> 05:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet >> Controller (rev 03) > > This chip is connected over PCI-X and should be significantly slower > and/or higher CPU utilization than the ESB2 based chip. At first I couldn't believe it since I put in some of the cards myself and those were PCIe x1 cards. But checking with lshw it looks you are right (and the expert anyway): *-pci:1 description: PCI bridge product: 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0.3 bus info: pci@01:00.3 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list *-network:0 DISABLED description: Ethernet interface product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@05:02.0 logical name: eth2 version: 03 serial: 00:1b:21:0d:c4:2c capacity: 1GB/s width: 64 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.20-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=52 link=no mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pair resources: iomemory:d8080000-d809ffff iomemory:d8000000-d803ffff ioport:3000-303f irq:28 *-network:1 description: Ethernet interface product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: pci@05:02.1 logical name: eth3 version: 03 serial: 00:1b:21:0d:c4:2d size: 100MB/s capacity: 1GB/s width: 64 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.20-k2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=172.28.11.4 latency=52 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pai r speed=100MB/s resources: iomemory:d80a0000-d80bffff iomemory:d8040000-d807ffff ioport:3040-307f irq:29 > > It shouldn't matter, but I would take into consideration that the ESB2 > ports should be faster. > We'll start looking into this soon and try to get some tests underway. > > PS in the future questions like this could be cc:'d to > e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net where all the Intel wired developers > hang out (in addition to netdev) Sorry, I should have remembered that one from ~6-9 months ago. Sorry, I'll start with that mid-thread (and another sorry for that). Cheers Carsten