Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754678AbXLCMoY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:44:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752592AbXLCMoQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:44:16 -0500 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.189]:7541 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbXLCMoP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:44:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=aMpWYxOk5G4+zI2FIWCWGyi44DqmryNUolqI43UzoOQWNXS5dhnv8lpkCn+BKkeAqG2d7874cmB0uS+3YQZVtt+6Rhze4mF7w8dDqv+AVJR/e+HdqplVkhmQoTj+5myhYIl+IILxM1td9EACEEvuSwwG0O2PEK2jKOZbWozkW+g= Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C From: Gilboa Davara To: LKML Linux Kernel Cc: Avi Kivity In-Reply-To: <1196685331.3969.20.camel@gilboa-work-dev.localdomain> References: <474EAD18.6040408@stellatravel.co.uk> <20071130143445.GA2310@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <53ADBDBF-9B65-441E-B867-D68DE48ABD64@mac.com> <4751BE0D.3050609@argo.co.il> <47539030.10600@argo.co.il> <1196685331.3969.20.camel@gilboa-work-dev.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:44:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1196685846.3969.27.camel@gilboa-work-dev.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 (2.12.1-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 19 On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 14:35 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Intel's newest dual 10GbE NIC can easily (?) throw ~14M packets per > second. (theoretical peak at 1514bytes/frame) > Granted, installing such a device on a single CPU/single core machine is > absurd - but even on an 8 core machine (2 x Xeon 53xx/54xx / AMD > Barcelona) it can still generate ~1M packets/s per core. Sigh... Sorry. Please ignore the broken math on my part. Make that 1.8M frames/second per card and ~100K packets/second per core. - Gilboa -- 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/