On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Stephen Samuel wrote: > Anantha wants to ROUTE 1gigabit of traffic -- That's 1gig in + 1gig out > =2gig total. Yes, that's what I do. > if you divide your 700Megabit HTTP traffic by two, you'll get a bit less > than the 400Mb that he's claiming to have gotten so far. > Matti's bus bandwith calcs indicate that standard PCI won't do the job > in terms of theoretical bandwidth capability. Once you switch up to > PCI-Express, you'll have the bus bandwith, but you may end up with A CPU > limit (the soft INT's). Why are you still talking about 'standard PCI' and interrupt-per-packet in 2004? PCI-X has been out for 5+ years, and NAPI has been out of 2+ years. > At that point, you might have to go to Real-Time Linux > and, possibly, custom drivers. If you can get away from > the the kernel Task Switching overhead for each packet, > you should be OK in terms of CPU capability. See above. -alex - : 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
