From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Bharath Madhavan <bharath_madhavan@ivivity.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Accelerated TCP/IP support from kernel
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:07:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15117.37952.537252.892498@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25369470B6F0D41194820002B328BDD20717A0@ATLOPS>
In-Reply-To: <25369470B6F0D41194820002B328BDD20717A0@ATLOPS>
Bharath Madhavan writes:
> I guess 3c905c NIC supports HW checksumming. Is this true?
Yes.
> In this case, do we have any benchmarking for this card
> with and without ZERO_COPY (and HW checksumming). I am eager to
> know by how many times did the system throughput increase?
It doesn't matter with 100baseT cards, they are slow enough that even
with the cpu doing the data copies the link may be easily saturated.
What you will get is decreased CPU utilization.
You need to go to gigabit or faster link speeds to see any real
throughput improvement.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-24 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-24 22:50 Bharath Madhavan
2001-05-24 23:07 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-05-24 23:51 ` Gerhard Mack
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2001-05-25 13:51 Bharath Madhavan
2001-05-24 22:16 Bharath Madhavan
2001-05-24 22:28 ` David S. Miller
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