Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:18:37 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:44467 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:18:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020911.081521.103561835.davem@redhat.com> To: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, tcw@tempest.prismnet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <477096648.1031728254@[10.10.2.3]> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 20 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 11 Sep 2002 09:06:36 -0600 "Martin J. Bligh" writes: > We can push about 420MB/s of IO out of this thing (out of that > theoretical 800Mb/s). Sounds about average for a P3. I have pushed the full 800MiB/s out of a P3 processor to memory but it was a very optimized loop. You pushed that over the PCI bus of your P3? Just to RAM doesn't count, lots of cpu's can do that. That's what makes his number interesting. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/