|On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:26:51 +0300 |raptor <raptor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | |> hi, |> |> does someone tried bridge and or router functionality of linux kernel on |> multiprocessor system. |> Does multiprocessor system increase network performance or give |> ability to process higher traffic.. |> |> What about highest possible troughput someone have achieved ? | |Your performance is going depend more on the bus speed and type of |NIC used. SMP might help but only if you assign the IRQ for each |NIC to a different processor. Network performance is more dependant |on memory and bus bandwidth than processor (at least with current hardware). ]- hmm. you are probably right, I'll have to concentrate on PCI-bus and quality eth-cards . Any recomendation ? what about a combo ethernet cards ? . On a SMP machine how is IRQ assigned so that every diiferent netcard is assigned to different CPU. PS. It seems that nobody had test the troughput of linux networking.. If u have a link to such test pls give me a link.. Some info on which network cards offloads CPU more.. or any info u can give me on the possible max and sustained throughput on modern x86 computer. | _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
