Yes. If you enable jumbo frames, the results will be definitely better. My
result is with jumbo frame of 8982 enabled.
If you say your CPU is 600 MHz, I guess there is still potential for you to
improve the speed. In our case we had only 300 MHz and got a similar value of
yours. Of course, there are many other issues which can be enabled to improve
the performance, such as interrupt coaleasing, hardware checksum processing,
etc.. Since we used Xilinx FPGA with embedded PowerPC and HW TEMAC, some work
can be done with FPGA hardware resources. I don't know your case and it's hard
to say how can you further improve.
BR
Ming
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:24:41 +0200
Subject: Re: ppc405ex + gigabit ethernet
From: lada.podi...@gmail.com
To: eeming...@hotmail.com
CC: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org
Thank you for your reply!
Yes, I agree the CPU is the bottleneck. But I have performed more tests with
the netperf tool and results seem strange to me. If I send 800 B of data, the
resulting speed is aproximately 100 Kb/s. On the other hand, If I try to send
32KB chunk of data with jumbo frames turned on, resulting speed is about 600
Kb/s (300-400 without jumbo frames). My ppc405ex runs at 600 MHz.
So it seems that it is definetely better idea to call sendto() less frequently
with bigger amounts of data, than to call it more often with smaler amounts. Is
it because smaller data means more frequent user space/kernel space switching?
Or is it network related issue?
Thanks!
Best,
Lada
2009/7/1 LiuMing <eeming...@hotmail.com>
Hi,
According to our experience on PPC405 + Gigabit Enet, your result is already
very reasonable. For UDP transmission, it can be around 400 Kb/s because of the
CPU bottleneck (in our case 300 MHz ppc405). If you want to further improve it,
a faster CPU is needed to process the TCP/IP stack, or you may buy commercial
TCP/IP stack rather than using the free Linux one.
BR
Ming
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:58:53 +0200
Subject: ppc405ex + gigabit ethernet
From: lada.podi...@gmail.com
To: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org
Hi,
I benchmarked performance of my network, which contains ppc405EX (Kilauea
board, kernel 2.6.30 from Denx) connected with a linux desktop via gigabit
ethernet. I used the netperf tool:
netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H 192.168.1.1 -- -m 32768
So I was sending UDP packets to the desktop. The resulting speed was about 370
Kb/s. I tried to send the packets to several different computers - with the
same result. So the ppc board is the bottleneck in this case.
Is there any possibility to improve the gigabit capabilities of the ppc405EX?
Is there anyone who achieved a better performance with ppc4xx boards?
Thanks!
Best,
Lada Podivin
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