Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.slu.se (mail1.slu.se [130.238.96.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hAJIj525019367 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:45:07 -0800 Received: from robur.slu.se (robur.slu.se [130.238.98.12]) by mail1.slu.se (8.9.3+/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07048; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:44:52 +0100 Received: by robur.slu.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 41A15EC23D; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:44:57 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16315.47657.228084.388046@robur.slu.se> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:44:57 +0100 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Francois Romieu , Brad House , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: r8169 and tg3 In-Reply-To: <3FBBA76B.4070606@pobox.com> References: <47973.68.105.173.45.1069042089.squirrel@mail.mainstreetsoftworks.com> <3FB9A277.70309@pobox.com> <20031118135848.A2451@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <3FBBA76B.4070606@pobox.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-archive-position: 1568 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 465 Lines: 14 Jeff Garzik writes: > hehe. I certainly don't object... You probably want to look over the > r8169 v1.6 that Brad posted a link to, since it does have some improved > 8169 hardware support (modulo bugs, of course). Yes r8169 can be interesting... I played with it a bit from my head the sending performance was about 900 kpps (pktgen) and RX very OK too about 780 kpps with just dropping the skb instead of doing netif_receive. Cheers. --ro