On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:33:16PM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote: > I see some mails passing over the list about gigabit interfaces, so I > wonder if there are any suggestions as to what processor/interface > should be used for high througput. > > I am currently working on a 8245 based board with 2.4.27 e100 driver > and when taking in (and processing streams), only about 50 Mbps can be > handled: about half of the time is based in kernel space (handling > interrupts). > > The eepro100 driver was much worse. > > As a result, I am a bit wondering about the higher bitrates. How much > do you achieve on tests with what hardware?
What benchmark do you use to measure throughput? Since you are processing streams sounds like you have an application-based benchmark rather than one of the typical ones. You can probably show the good throughput if you pick another benchmark, but it probably won't answer your system design question. -Matt
