From owner-freebsd-net Sun Oct 20 15:40:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42B137B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9172243E97 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from PHE (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.6/8.11.4) with SMTP id g9KMeBYj077363; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:40:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <049601c27889$ba8b01c0$3500080a@PHE> From: "Petri Helenius" To: "Don Bowman" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: ENOBUFS Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:40:41 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Well, I'm definitely finding that I have more CPU free when using >the broadcom BCM570X NIC (bge) than the Intel 8254X NIC (em). What kind of difference are we talking about here? One third or less? >http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/broadcom.asp >http://www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/3com.asp >has a benchmark of the broadcom versus the intel. This is on >a win2k platform. These benchmarks were paid for by broadcom, >so take them with a grain of salt. I think IŽll put a 3com card onto the PCI-X slot on the same chassis and do some comparisons on the same exact hardware, traffic and kernel configuration. However, if I understand correctly, PCI-X would allow optimizations that are not present on the em driver? Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message