Your subject line is way too long...I didn't know what the email was about until I openned it. It almost got discarded as more spam sent to the lists... > > I had overlooked this set of results: > http://www4.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040430/gigabit_ethernet-09.html > > These results suggest that CSA works as advertised (it breaks the PCI > 32/33 barrier). However, these tests were run in WinXP, not Linux. The > netperf baseline is considerably lower than my memory-to-memory > measurements on similar hardware, and the PCI-X system performs worse > than I expected. Nevertheless, CSA does work as advertised in breaking > past the PCI bottleneck. I don't fully trust Tom's Hardware to begin with. They've been known in the past to skew results. I personally wouldn't use WinXp in anything mission-critical to begin with, so the point is moot. They offer nothing towards the Linux crowd. > I'm contacting the authors to see if they have any results of that > article. I'd still like to learn about Linux user experiences with this > hardware. My point stands... However, PCI is amazingly slow in comparison to everything else. With PCI Express moving in, all these old standards will move out. PCI-X is nice and all, but as far as expansion goes it's still kind of limited. All the other PCI specs are just slow (32-bit, 64-bit, 33mhz, 66mhz, all slow). PCI Express is now being used on some motherboards, you might want to check out the speed there... I've heard/seen that the performance for those is amazing... However, if CSA is that important, grap a linux box and hack it apart...some real raw numbers are always pretty, even if they aren't always real-world... -ryan -- huh? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ - : 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
