RE: Intel Pro 82546 chipset performance

Is there a PPC compatible driver available for this the 82546 Intel Pro
1000. I was just handed an SBE lanPMC card with this chipset on it
yesterday. I am trying to use it on an 8265 based system with a 2.4.21
kernel. The driver in this kernel crashes on startup. A quick look at the
driver makes me think that it has never been used on anything but x86. Am I
misreading the situation? Is there an enhanced driver available?

Thanks
Dean Dayton

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Agarwal [mailto:sagarwal10@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:37 AM
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org; linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Intel Pro 82546 chipset performance



Hi

We're trying to use the Intel Pro 1000 adapters with the
82546 chipset for a packet switching application. Has anyone
investigated performance on this chipset? With minimum sized
ethernet frames, the maximum throughput I can get is about 1
million packets per second (versus a 1.4 mill for line rate
on a gigethernet) and it looks that performance is skewed
towards receiving traffic (rather than sending out).

If anyone has any opinions or thoughts I'd appreciate them.
It's hard to get information out of Intel.

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I know the kernel e1000 driver works on ppc (at least on an 8245).


On Jan 14, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Dayton, Dean wrote:

Is there a PPC compatible driver available for this the 82546 Intel Pro
1000. I was just handed an SBE lanPMC card with this chipset on it
yesterday. I am trying to use it on an 8265 based system with a 2.4.21
kernel. The driver in this kernel crashes on startup. A quick look at
the
driver makes me think that it has never been used on anything but x86.
Am I
misreading the situation? Is there an enhanced driver available?

Thanks
Dean Dayton

quoted

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Agarwal [mailto:sagarwal10@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:37 AM
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org; linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Intel Pro 82546 chipset performance

Hi

We're trying to use the Intel Pro 1000 adapters with the
82546 chipset for a packet switching application. Has anyone
investigated performance on this chipset? With minimum sized
ethernet frames, the maximum throughput I can get is about 1
million packets per second (versus a 1.4 mill for line rate
on a gigethernet) and it looks that performance is skewed
towards receiving traffic (rather than sending out).

If anyone has any opinions or thoughts I'd appreciate them.
It's hard to get information out of Intel.

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