Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Antwort: SCSI networking? | From | Jes Degn Soerensen <> | Date | 24 Apr 1998 11:22:41 +0200 |
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>>>>> "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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