Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[Richard Gooch]

David S. Miller writes:
>    From: Benjamin LaHaise <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:22:10 -0500
>    
>    That's my fault.  The version of the driver in the kernel atm sucks in 
>    performance; I'll try to spend the day needed on the driver this week 
>    and it should get up to ~800mbit from the current mess.  Getting NAPI 
>    in the kernel would help... ;-)
> 
> Syskonnect sk98 with jumbo frames gets ~107MB/sec TCP bandwidth
> without NAPI, there is no reason other cards cannot go full speed as
> well.
> 
> NAPI is really only going to help with high packet rates not with
> thinks like raw bandwidth tests.

You're saying that people should just go and use jumbo frames? Isn't
that a problem for mixed 10/100/1000 LANs?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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