On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:08:52PM +0800, ????????? wrote: > We want to get a data rate of 600Mbits/s over gigabit ethernet of ppc440gx. > How about the status of support to ppc440gx GigE in Linux kernel? > Which kernel version should we select? 2.6 or 2.4?
GigE support for 440GX is in official 2.6. Patch for 2.4 is available at http://kernel.ebshome.net. If you don't feel comfortable dealing with kernel patches, I'd recommend 2.6 Effective Ethernet throughput highly depends on packet size. For some small packet sizes 600Mb/s is theoretically impossible over GigE. I achieved 900+ Mb/s TCP throughput with my driver (packets around 4K long) and using sendfile(2) based test application. -- Eugene
