Re: [8139too] Possible bug with NAPI

2005-12-30 Thread Aritz Bastida
> > I don't claim that the shared interrupt _should_ interfere but do you > see a specific reason why it would hurt the 8139too driver ? > Well, not really Just surprised me Aritz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [8139too] Possible bug with NAPI

2005-12-29 Thread Aritz Bastida
2005/12/30, Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Aritz Bastida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] I don't understand. Is there any problem with my email address? > > Interrupt Status Register bits are always set to 1, if the condition > if present, regardless of the

[8139too] Possible bug with NAPI

2005-12-29 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello, I think there is some kind of bug or something in the driver 8139too. Supossedly, receive interrupts are disabled when a hardware interruption is received, but anyway receive interrupts keep on triggering. Below I show the two interruption masks are used throughtout the driver. The first is

Re: LOW throughput with pktgen and e1000

2005-12-28 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello again, Now I send you the statistics I have collected in the test I've done. But before, another problem I didn't tell before, because it didn't happen always. But it's quite strange. I have used pktgen in quite a few machines and in all of them, if you say clone_skb=1000 or so, the performa

Re: LOW throughput with pktgen and e1000

2005-12-28 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello again. First of all, thank you all for your replies. I've been working hard for long days and nights before sending this question, but I guess I'm still too newbie in the Linux kernel and specially with hardware matters such as pci, network card specifications, bus latencies, and so on. Firs

Re: LOW throughput with pktgen and e1000

2005-12-28 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hi. First of all, thank you. It seems the problem may be in there. The PCI buses are actually quite slow. As I told before I have a Pentium 3 with a e1000 card which achieves 350kpps at most. I have also a Pentium 4 with another e1000 card (the specific models were said in the prev mail). This c

LOW throughput with pktgen and e1000

2005-12-28 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hi everybody: I need to use pktgen for sending packets at very high speed to another machine, in order to test it under heavy network traffic. All my previous injection test were done with a dual Pentium III 800 MHz. As I needed a more powerful machine I got a Pentium 4 but the results are quite s

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello again, Sorry Michael, but I am a kind of newbie in this subject and couldnt understand everything you said clearly. I'm working on my "final year project" (I think it's said like that, I mean the project you do when you finish your degree :P). The purpose of my project is to capture and anal

Re: Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Aritz Bastida
2005/12/14, Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:56 +0100, Aritz Bastida wrote: > > > How can I find the specs for the Tulip3 NIC? > > > Most of the statistics counters follow the MIB definitions in the RFCs. > There are a few that are n

Specs for Tulip3

2005-12-14 Thread Aritz Bastida
Hello, I've been reading the source code for the tg3 module (Broadcom Tigon3 Ethernet card) in the Linux kernel. Specifically, I need to access the NIC specific statistics, since I have to measure the performance of a server under heavy network loads. Althought the statistics exported with ethtool

Re: disabling NAPI poll

2005-11-21 Thread Aritz Bastida
Well, the answer to that is quite long, and it's precisely the purpose of my research. But, in short, what i need is to capture network packets as fast as possible, and turn off the incoming packet feeding when too many packets arrive. Don't now yet if you think the solution I proposed in my previo