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SubjectRe: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000
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"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com> writes:

> > Ie. the headers that don't need to go across the bus are the critical
> > resource saved by TSO.
>
> I'm not sure that's entirely true in this case - the Netfinity
> 8500R is slightly unusual in that it has 3 or 4 PCI buses, and
> there's 4 - 8 gigabit ethernet cards in this beast spread around
> different buses (Troy - are we still just using 4? ... and what's
> the raw bandwidth of data we're pushing? ... it's not huge).
>
> I think we're CPU limited (there's no idle time on this machine),
> which is odd for an 8 CPU 900MHz P3 Xeon,

Quite possibly. The P3 has roughly an 800MB/s FSB bandwidth, that must
be used for both I/O and memory accesses. So just driving a gige card at
wire speed takes a considerable portion of the cpus capacity.

On analyzing this kind of thing I usually find it quite helpful to
compute what the hardware can theoretically to get a feel where the
bottlenecks should be.

Eric
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