> Is there any chance you could do some benchmark runs with ttcp or > somesuch? I tested on 6-7 servers running with eepro eth0: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:E0:18:01:78:6C, IRQ 10. realtek 8139too with NAPI 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 realtek 8139too with no NAPI (standard driver with soft polling) If this quick test is correct, realtek 8139too's driver works as good as eepro's driver. Octave >> from realtek (no NAPI) to realtek (no NAPI) ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-r: 327680000 bytes in 42.90 real seconds = 59671.99 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-r: 224852 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.20, calls/sec = 5241.16 ttcp-r: 0.1user 1.5sys 0:42real 3% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw >> from eepro to eepro ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-r: 327680000 bytes in 28.33 real seconds = 90379.31 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-r: 225058 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.13, calls/sec = 7945.54 ttcp-r: 0.2user 4.2sys 0:28real 15% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw >> from realtek (NAPI) to realtek (NAPI) ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-r: 327680000 bytes in 29.21 real seconds = 87644.11 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-r: 225735 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.13, calls/sec = 7728.26 ttcp-r: 0.0user 1.7sys 0:29real 6% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw >> from eepro to realtek (no NAPI) ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-t: 327680000 bytes in 34.32 real seconds = 74594.99 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-t: 40000 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.88, calls/sec = 1165.55 ttcp-t: 0.0user 1.2sys 0:34real 3% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw >> from realtek (NAPI) to realtek (no NAPI) ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-r: 327680000 bytes in 32.60 real seconds = 78532.74 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-r: 225544 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.15, calls/sec = 6918.98 ttcp-r: 0.1user 1.6sys 0:32real 5% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw >> from realtek (NAPI) to eepro ttcp-r: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/0, port=5001 tcp ttcp-r: socket ttcp-r: accept from ttcp-r: 327680000 bytes in 34.02 real seconds = 75250.05 Kbit/sec +++ ttcp-r: 225685 I/O calls, msec/call = 0.15, calls/sec = 6633.91 ttcp-r: 0.1user 3.7sys 0:34real 11% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
