On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:25:02PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen put forth on 9/15/2010 4:40 PM: > > These ports are connected to the > > south bridge often with 20 Tbit/s or more, while a controller on an > > 32 bit PCI only delivers 1 TBit. > > Tbit/s for 32/33 PCI? I think you're a little high.. by a factor of > 1000, Keld. :) yes, you are right. I meant Gbit/s > Why, may I ask, are you quoting serial data rates for parallel buses? > I've only seen inter-chip bandwidth quoted in serial rates on > communications gear. Everyone else quotes parallel data rates for board > level communication paths-- Bytes/s not bits/sec. You must work for > Ericsson. ;) because I have seen specs given in bit/s. Eg southbridge speeds, and speeds of PCIe (2,5 Gbit/s per lane). I agree that people probably want speeds in MB/s. > Regardless of bit rate values, we agree on the important part, for the > most part. :) I think so, too. keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
