Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:46:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:46:10 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:19827 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:46:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:45:55 +0100 From: Rene Rebe To: Aaron Lehmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hfhsu@sis.com.tw, lcchang@sis.com.tw Subject: Re: Disappointing SiS900 performance - driver issue? Message-Id: <20011213194555.50d6adeb.rene.rebe@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20011213102423.B13809@vitelus.com> In-Reply-To: <20011213102423.B13809@vitelus.com> Organization: FreeSourceCommunity ;-) X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My sis630 (incl. the sis900) bases Celeron-633 laptop is much faster (using a 2.4.16 kernel here): portable:~ # ./netio 192.168.1.1 NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.13 (C) 1997-2001 Kai Uwe Rommel TCP/IP connection established. Packet size 1 k bytes: 10259 k bytes/sec Packet size 2 k bytes: 10146 k bytes/sec Packet size 4 k bytes: 10288 k bytes/sec Packet size 8 k bytes: 10317 k bytes/sec Packet size 16 k bytes: 10248 k bytes/sec Packet size 32 k bytes: 10173 k bytes/sec This the sis900 one as a client over a hub and a switch to a 3c59x - and the other way round: server1:~ # ./netio 192.168.1.5 NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.13 (C) 1997-2001 Kai Uwe Rommel TCP/IP connection established. Packet size 1 k bytes: 8126 k bytes/sec Packet size 2 k bytes: 8191 k bytes/sec Packet size 4 k bytes: 8110 k bytes/sec Packet size 8 k bytes: 8135 k bytes/sec Packet size 16 k bytes: 8154 k bytes/sec Packet size 32 k bytes: 8125 k bytes/sec On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:24:23 -0800 Aaron Lehmann wrote: > My new motherboard has an onboard SiS900 ethernet device. I was hoping > to free up a PCI slot by switching from my Intel EEPro100 to it. With > the Intel card I can quite easilly pull 11.5mb/s, but the SiS seems to > max out at 3.5mb/s or so. Is this the fault of the hardware or the > driver? > > sis900.c: v1.08.01 9/25/2001 > PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0 > eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1. > eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ 11, 00:d0:09:ea:ea:7e. > ... > eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex > > - > 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/ > k33p h4ck1n6 Ren? -- Ren? Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 ) eMail: rene.rebe@gmx.net rene@rocklinux.org Homepage: http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/index.html Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. - 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/