On 10/3/07, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:46:43PM +0100, Tony Sarendal wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Tony Sarendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 9/27/07, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > > > I hooked up the X4100 to one of our testers and ran some basic tests > just to > > get > > familiar with the tester. > > > > I put up the results of the first run of tests on > > http://www.layer17.net/openbsd-router-intro.html > > > > All opinions are welcome, please be gentle. > > > > I hope to be able to test the 1k vlan interface firewall setup later, > > I just need to baseline a bit first. > > > > Quite interesting numbers. I guess that em(4) does still to many pci > read/write accesses and so 64byte packet storms are mostly limited by the > PCI bus access delay. My gut feeling is that the TX path is causing the > slow down (enqueing happens on a per packet basis and that is porbably not > optimal for current high speed cards). > Could you add the dmesg of the test box to the website? > Do you have any other network cards you could test? (I'm mostly interested > in bnx but sk, msk, bge and nfe could be interesting as well).
I'll put up the dmesg when I'm in the office again. The nfe port I do management over has jammed, a little bios tweaking might fix that. The only cards I have access to at the moment are the builtins, 2xem and 2xnfe. The packet drops of 64 byte frames in the throughput/latency test is a bit confusing, I can't see that behaviour if I slowly ramp up from 1kpps. Before I do tests with more advanced config I want the basic ones to give a result I understand so I'll try to figure that one out. /Tony
