I had seen something similar in an application of mine. If I loaded the
e100 module with BundleMax=1 I got the same results as using the
eepro100 driver.
Mark.
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 15:54, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > I'm seeing an odd thing with the e100 driver. It seems to be this way
> > with the 2.4 series and with 2.5.68, and I couldn't find anything with a
> > search.
> >
> > I've attached a small program to measure latency of round-trip time on
> > UDP. If I send 85-byte packets between two of my machines, I get 170us
> > round-trip latency. If I send 86-byte packets, I get 1329us latency.
> > This seems quite odd. If I test on the eepro100 driver, I get expected
> > linear increase in round-trip time as the packet size increases, and it
> > never gets close to 1300us.
> >
> > To run the program, do:
> >
> > ./ip_lat -s <port>
> >
> > on one machine to run the server, and then do
> >
> > ./ip_lat <server IP> <port> 1000 85
> >
> > to send 1000 85-byte packets from another machine. Change the 85 to 86
> > to see the latency go up.
> >
> > -Corey
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