From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 2 12:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from warez.scriptkiddie.org (uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com [209.162.142.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C277637B417 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.69.11] (unknown [192.168.69.11]) by warez.scriptkiddie.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9D062D01; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:16:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:16:46 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Richard Sharpe , Subject: Re: Patch #3 (TCP / Linux / Performance) In-Reply-To: <200112021918.fB2JIg592414@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20011202121147.G92925-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Throughput 47.2446 MB/sec (NB=59.0558 MB/sec 472.446 MBit/sec) 20 procs > > It seems to max-out at around 75,000 packets per second (input + output). > > I doubt these results could be duplicated on anything but a DELL2550. > It dedicates an entire internal 64 bit 66MHz PCI bus just to the > on-board gigabit ethernet. What is the remaining bottleneck in these tests? CPU? Interrupts? What would you need to do to get that closer to the theoretical limit (something around 920 Mbs for GigE IIRC)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message