> Use a cross-over cable to play with Jumbo frames, that is
> what I do :-)
>
> Later this week I'll rerun tests on all the cards I have
> (Acenic, Sk98, tigon3, Natsemi etc.) with current drivers
> to see what it looks like with both jumbo and non-jumbo
> mtus over gigabit.
I no longer have the original, so I will just have to respond to this
one, since it is related. I know I know nearly nothing about
networking, but here has been my thinking.
David, you believe we don't need NAPI. You believe we perform fine
without it. Here is my question. A PCI bus, IRC, has about 500
Megabytes/sec of bandwidth. A full blown gigabit Ethernet stream should
be around 133 Megabytes/sec. Sounds to me like a PC could act easily
(As far as bandwidth is concerned) as a 4 to 5 port gigabit Ethernet
router.
How well does this work with NAPI and how well does it work without? Is
NAPI a gain here?
Maybe there are other issues involved that I am unaware of, if there
are, I would still like to see how the theoretical answers pan out.
Thank you,
Trever Adams
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