On 9/4/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +0000, Marcus Popp wrote:
> On 2006-09-03T23:16, Bill Marquette wrote:
> > Other than Intel, is anyone else making quad port gig cards?
>
> Silicom makes em-based quad/six port cards.
I thought the point of this subthread was Bill trying to avoid
em(4)-based cards?
More or less :) I can certainly continue to live with em(4), but I'm
definitely seeing some bottlenecks (interrupt load) with it on my
hardware (HP DL380 G4's - I have some new DL385's in that I haven't
benchmarked) w/ i386 non-MP kernel (MP kernel in my testing seemed to
negatively impact throughput performance even in MP hardware). One
important note is that this is with the previous generation of the
pci-x boards, I haven't retested with the currently shipping boards
that are only supported in 4.0.
--Bill
