Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Sep 2002 09:11:05 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000 |
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> No, no. Bad Martin! Throughput didn't drop, "Specweb compliance" > dropped. Those are two very, very different things. I've found > that the server can produce a lot more throughput, although it > doesn't have the characteristics that Specweb considers compliant. > Just have Troy enable mod-status and look at the throughput that > Apache tells you that it is giving during a run. _That_ is real > throughput, not number of compliant connections.
By throughput I meant number of compliant connections, not bandwidth. It may well be latency that's going out the window, rather than bandwidth. Yes, I should use more precise terms ...
> _And_ NAPI is for receive only, right? Also, my compliance drop > occurs with the NAPI checkbox disabled. There is something else > in the new driver that causes our problems.
Not sure about that - I was told once that there were transmission completion interrupts as well? What happens to those? Or am I confused again ...
M.
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