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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:11:48 -0700
From:      Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar@freebsd.org>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ENOBUFS
Message-ID:  <20021018111147.A91108@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021018103653.V1611-100000@gateway.posi.net>; from kbyanc@posi.net on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:45:13AM -0700
References:  <20021018103319.A82982@carp.icir.org> <20021018103653.V1611-100000@gateway.posi.net>

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FYI. 82543 doesn't support PCI-X protocol.
For PCI-X support use 82544, 82545 or 82546 based cards.

-Prafulla


Kelly Yancey [kbyanc@posi.net] wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> > ...
> > >   Hmm.  Might that explain the abysmal performance of the em driver with
> > > packets smaller than 333 bytes?
> >
> > what do you mean ? it works great for me. even on -current i
> > can push out over 400kpps (64byte frames) on a 2.4GHz box.
> >
> > 	luigi
> >
> 
>   Using a SmartBit to push traffic across a 1.8Ghz P4; 82543 chipset card
> plugged into PCI-X bus:
> 
> FrameSize       TxFrames        RxFrames        LostFrames      Lost (%)
> 330             249984          129518          120466          48.19
> 331             249144          127726          121418          48.73
> 332             248472          140817          107655          43.33
> 333             247800          247800          0               0
> 
>   It has no trouble handling frames 333 bytes or larger.  But for any frame
> 332 bytes or smaller we consistently see ~50% packet loss.  This same machine
> easily pushes ~100Mps with the very same frame sizes using a bge card rather
> than em.
> 
>   I've gotten the same results with both em driver version 1.3.14 and 1.3.15
> on both FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.7 (all 4 combinations, that is).
> 
>   Kelly
> 
> --
> Kelly Yancey -- kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org}
> FreeBSD, The Power To Serve: http://www.freebsd.org/
> 
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