Re: how to improve the throughput of linux network

[Jason Lunz]

[e-mail] said:
> we use linux as our router. i just tested the performance of the
> router with smartbits, and i found that the throughput of 64byte frame
> is only 25%, about 35kpps. 
>
> someone mentioned that the throughput of 64byte frame could reach
> 70kpps.so i wish i could improve the performance of our router,but i
> don't know how to do that.
>
> i looked for some solution, and found some article mentioned the NAPI.
> it changed the driver to polling mode,so that the interrupt is no too
> much. but i could not find  drivers for our router.(eepro100 card).
> has the polling mode driver been used in linux?

I made NAPI core and driver patches for linux 2.4; they're at
http://gtf.org/lunz/linux/net/. There's an eepro100 driver there.

Please send me (and the linux netdev list) the results of any testing
you do.

Jason