Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:30:10 +0800 | | From | "Zhiwen Zheng" <> | | Subject | IP over Fibre Channel slower than GigaEthernet ? | |
Hi,
To compare tcp transport speed of IP over FC to that of GigaEthernet,
I have two machines connected directly with FC or GigaEther, and run
ttcp to get the result.
configuration of the machines:
kernel version : 2.6.10
platform : xscale iop80331 500MHz
memory : 512MB DDR2
FC controller : LSI FC949x (using driver mptlan.c)
GigaEthernet controller : Intel 82546EB
In the Ethernet case, the transport speed is about 90MB/s,
and cpu usage is about 90%.
In the FC case, the transport speed is about 60MB/s,
and cpu usage is also about 90%.
Could someone tell me why FC is slower than GigaEthernet?
And is it possible to reduce the cpu usage through DMA or something else ?
Thanks.
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