From: Charles Cazabon <linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ns83820 0.17
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:06:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312130647.A5329@twoflower.internal.do> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020312004036.A3441@redhat.com> <51A3E836-35A8-11D6-A4A8-000393843900@metaparadigm.com> <20020312.031509.53067416.davem@redhat.com> <1015956757.4220.3.camel@aurora>
In-Reply-To: <1015956757.4220.3.camel@aurora>; from tadams-lists@myrealbox.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:12:32PM -0500
Trever L. Adams <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> Here is my question. A PCI bus, IRC, has about 500 Megabytes/sec of
> bandwidth.
Depends. 32-bit 33Mhz PCI is 133MB/s. 64-bit 66MHz PCI is 533MB/s -- those
are theoretical, of course. In real life you're not likely to see better than
about 90% of those figures, even in ideal cases.
> A full blown gigabit Ethernet stream should be around 133 Megabytes/sec.
> Sounds to me like a PC could act easily (As far as bandwidth is concerned)
> as a 4 to 5 port gigabit Ethernet router.
If you define PC as "cheap Athlon box with 32-bit, 33MHz PCI bus", then no.
Charles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 12:58 Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters Frank Elsner
2002-02-15 13:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:36 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 14:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:55 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 15:36 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 15:03 ` Jason Lunz
2002-02-26 20:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-02-15 20:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-19 0:18 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 14:43 ` J Sloan
2002-02-27 14:12 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-03-10 15:33 ` Harald Welte
2002-03-10 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-10 21:35 ` Harald Welte
2002-03-11 0:55 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 1:14 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 1:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-11 2:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:22 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 2:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-11 2:32 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 19:48 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 6:20 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 2:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 3:15 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 4:20 ` Michael Clark
2002-03-11 4:28 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-12 5:40 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters) Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-12 11:00 ` Michael Clark
2002-03-12 18:12 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 Trever L. Adams
2002-03-12 18:31 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-03-12 19:06 ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2002-03-12 19:39 ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-03-12 11:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 13:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 13:03 ` dean gaudet
2002-03-12 18:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 19:52 ` pjd
2002-03-14 9:54 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters) Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 20:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-15 1:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-15 8:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-08 5:14 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 6:04 ` Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:05 ` Wayne Whitney
2002-03-11 2:10 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 0:41 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 1:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:04 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-11 2:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:22 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-11 2:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-21 20:39 ` Thomas Langås
2002-03-11 6:07 ` Harald Welte
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