Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:43:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Question about i820 chipset. |
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Hi Alan,
I have some small questions...
Have you ever tried a motherboard with i820 chipset and two NIC's? I have a Asus P3C-D here (dual pIII 800 with 256MB rimm) and a D-Link DFE570-TX NIC (quad DECchip 21143 behind a DECchip 21152 pci bridge).
The problem I'm seeing is extremely crappy pci performance. With one of the NIC's active I see no real problems but when two NIC's are active at the same time all hell breaks loose :(
if I generate traffic out via 2 NIC's at the same time I'd expect to get about 2 x 100Mbit/s but in reality I get 2 x 25Mbit/s with this motherboard. and with 3 NIC's active I get about 3 x 15-20Mbit/s.
I tried replacing the motherboard with an old SMP board based on the 440bx chipset (cpus underclocked to 600MHz) and then I can easily get 3 x 100Mbit/s with 25-30% cpu used in the machine.
So my question is, have you ever seen such pci issues? I've tried all BIOS settings I could find and a lot of diffrent kernels. I've also tried the vanilla tulip-driver and the NAPI'fied one (which I have been helping to test) and both show the exact same performanceproblems.
I tried routing a lot of packets and it started dropping a lot of packets when the cpu was only 75% used according to both vmstat and cyclesoak (with an UP kernel). A profile shows that default_idle gets about 25% of the time. I assume the kernel is waiting for the pci bus.
And the last question, if you have the hardware, would you mind testing something similar on the Asus A7M266-D? We've been thinking of getting a few of these boards to replace the crappy i820 ones.
I saw that you included a patch for MPS 1.4 in -pre9-ac1, was this the same patch you were talking about earlier and does it work?
/Martin
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