Michael Chan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 +0100, Dag Bakke wrote: >> I have been playing with a couple of laptops with GbE interfaces, and >> iperf. (Two Dell Latitude D600 connected back-to-back.)
[snip] >> Is there anything I can do to increase the bandwidth further, or is this >> as far as the host bridge will take me? I have enabled CONFIG_PCI_MSI, >> but it doesn't look like it makes any difference. >> Do the intel chipsets support MSI? > > The driver will not enable MSI on 5705M because of hardware bugs so it > won't make any difference. You might try enabling TSO with ethtool -K. > It may or may not increase throughput but should decrease your CPU > utilization. Got both. Max throughput increased from ~605 Mbps with carefully tuned options to iperf, to ~650 Mbps with less carefully tuned options to iperf. Your response is highly appreciated. Thank you. Dag B. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
