Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> I am trying to generate (send only) packets at maximum rate on a
> 100Mbit ethernet, which means using 64-byte packets and, once you
> do the math (counting preamble, packet and inter-packet gap),
> results in some 148.000 packets-per-second (and just to get the
> idea, this also means that a new packet is transmitted every 6.72us).
>
> Note, the above is not trivial as you need a fast CPU, and probably
> some tricks in order to avoid parf of the overhead of ip_output().
>
> In any case, on botu a P3-650 and an Athlon-750, I managed to
> achieve this speed using the "dc" driver. When i tried the same
> with the 'fxp' driver, there was no way i managed to go above
> 105-110.000 packets per second (meaning an average of 9.1us/packet).
>
> Any idea on what is going on ? I have spent quite some time in
> the fxp driver and cannot really tell where the problem is.
> Unfortunately my diagnostic tools do not let me see what is going
> on on the wire, whether the spacing is larger than it should be,
> etc. etc.
It might be related to the fact that the fxp driver doesn't generate
a transmission complete interrupt unless the interface queue length is
exactly 119.
Does the following change make any difference?
--- if_fxp.c- Wed Feb 14 11:13:42 2001
+++ if_fxp.c Wed Feb 14 11:14:27 2001
@@ -1183,6 +1183,7 @@
* going again if suspended.
*/
if (txp != NULL) {
+ txp->cb_command |= FXP_CB_COMMAND_I;
fxp_scb_wait(sc);
CSR_WRITE_1(sc, FXP_CSR_SCB_COMMAND, FXP_SCB_COMMAND_CU_RESUME);
}
-Kenjiro
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