Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jason Lunz" <> | Subject | Re: how to improve the throughput of linux network | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:26:37 -0400 |
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zhengcb@netpower.com.cn 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.
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