On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:04:09 +0300 raptor <raptor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > |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. You want to look at Robert Olssen's work http://robur.slu.se/Linux/net-development/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
