Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:56:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:56:30 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:52748 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:56:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3C83993A.94FE655E@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:56:42 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: "David S. Miller" , linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BETA-0.94] Fifth test release of Tigon3 driver In-Reply-To: <20020304.041252.13772021.davem@redhat.com> <20020304164453.A27587@stud.ntnu.no> 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 Thomas Lang?s wrote: > > David S. Miller: > > How does this thing perform for people? In particular lmbench > > 'bw_tcp' and 'lat_tcp' numbers over gigabit on beefy hardware are > > considered very interesting... > > Ok, here I am again; doing some benchmarking :) > > (all this is done with same hardware as before, and your tg3 v0.94 driver in > both ends): > test8:/usr/src/LMbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu# ./bw_tcp 129.241.56.160 > initial bandwidth measurement: move=10485760, usecs=117352: 89.35 MB/sec > move=693633024, XFERSIZE=65536 > Socket bandwidth using 129.241.56.160: 104.73 MB/sec > > test8:/usr/src/LMbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu# ./lat_tcp 129.241.56.160 > TCP latency using 129.241.56.160: 100.0089 microseconds > > Do you want any more benchmark; just say so :) I am always interested in more benchmarks, never ask this question :):) A comparison between bcm5700 and tg3 would be interesting, for each new release, if you were willing to do that. And, what MTU are you using? You may have answered this earlier and I forgot :) If you -are- on a gigabit network, then you [currently] must manually enable an MTU of 9000 (jumbo frames). Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft | Choose life. - 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/