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SubjectRe: Antwort: SCSI networking?
FromJes Degn Soerensen <>
Date24 Apr 1998 11:22:41 +0200
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

Alan> Gigaether and HIPPI already can
>>  Except for Gig Ether you will be long dead trying to keep up with
>> the interrupts before reaching 800Mbps ;-)

Alan> Depends on the hardware. If you have huge buffers you take a max
Alan> of one rx irq per timer tick and you only take a tx irq when you
Alan> need to send data, the queue was full and has now hit half
Alan> empty.

Even then you die from processing all those silly small packets ... GE
flat out maximum MTU sized packets is still around 80000 packets
..... 
Alan> per packet tx/rx irq's are just the current very primitive
Alan> network card design

Sure, but even 80000 divided by 10 is an awful lot ;-)
Jes

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