Re: pktgen

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:53:54PM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> > 160 679270
> 
> From this point onwards your HW can saturate the pipe, this is the
> boring part of the graph.

Look at it this way.  Assume that the cost of transmitting a single
packet consists of a packet-size-dependent part (call it 'bandwidth')
and a packet-size-independent part (call that one 'latency').

The higher the latter part is, the bigger packets you need to saturate
the (GigE) pipe.  

Your 64/133 setup saturates GigE with 160B packets, my 32/66 setup needs
350B packets even though there is ample bandwidth in both cases.

Hope I'm making some sense here.


--L