Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:15:56 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ben <ben@edelweb.fr> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Adept <adept@cep.yale.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, William Bulley <web@merit.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C589 performance (was Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs ) Message-ID: <199710151345.XAA00752@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 15:23:05 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.971015152201.12107D-100000@ben.edelweb.fr>
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> > > I 've done some benchmarking and I'm getting on my Thinkpad 701C something
> > > like 700K/sec with my 3C589B.
> >
> > On a silent network, their throughput is fine. Unfortunately, it
> > appears that the '589 suffers from similar problems to other 3Com cards
> > on networks with other traffic; I see transfers out of this system as
> > slow as 50K/sec on a lightly to moderately loaded network. Others have
> > reported similar experiences with other cards (3C509, 3C59x, 3C90x).
>
> I have had this problem before--what you have to make sure ofis:
>
> 1) The cards aren't sharing interrupts
You can't share interrupts with a PCCARD.
> 2) You aren't using more than one link state for the card at a time
> (i.e. -link0 link1 -link2)
ep0: flags=a843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK1,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 202.0.75.17 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 202.0.75.31
ether 00:60:97:88:e7:93
On the same network, talking to the same client, an
NE2000-clone-equipped laptop achieves around 700k/sec. I'm looking
forward to the changes recently committed to the if_ep driver in the
hope that this will help, although I am about to lose my 589 when I
have to give the cable back.
mike
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