Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-14 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:02:50 -0400

> I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can
> highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs.  They only
> cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate.  And
> as a 10-GigE router, they can do full bidirectional 10-GigE line rate
> IP forwarding.  Note the choice of system/motherboard/CPU is as
> important as the choice of NIC in achieving maximum performance.

The only thing I don't like about the myri10ge cards is that
they lack VLAN offloading in hardware.

Strangely this appears to be common amongst 10gb parts :-/
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Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-14 Thread David Miller
From: Bill Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:02:50 -0400

 I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can
 highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs.  They only
 cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate.  And
 as a 10-GigE router, they can do full bidirectional 10-GigE line rate
 IP forwarding.  Note the choice of system/motherboard/CPU is as
 important as the choice of NIC in achieving maximum performance.

The only thing I don't like about the myri10ge cards is that
they lack VLAN offloading in hardware.

Strangely this appears to be common amongst 10gb parts :-/
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Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-09 Thread Bill Fink
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> There are various agencies/educational institutions doing testing but was 
> curious if anyone has 'found' a 10 gigabit card shootout measuring the 
> performance between 10 gigabit cards on the 2.6 kernel?  Most of the 
> benchmarks are from the vendors themselves Intel/etc-- was wondering if 
> there were any vendor-independent benchmarks out there?
> 
> Until switches come down in price, 10gbps will be most relegated to 
> business/research use and therefore such benchmarks probably will be hard 
> to come by but I thought I'd ask..

I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can
highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs.  They only
cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate.  And
as a 10-GigE router, they can do full bidirectional 10-GigE line rate
IP forwarding.  Note the choice of system/motherboard/CPU is as
important as the choice of NIC in achieving maximum performance.

Sample nuttcp test:

chance7 -> chance9 10-second TCP test:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# nuttcp -w10m 192.168.88.16
11817.8125 MB /  10.00 sec = 9909.8073 Mbps 100 %TX 71 %RX

The system specs are:

Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895ANRF motherboard with Nvidia nForce
Professional 2200+2050 chipset, 2 AMD Opteron 254 2.8 GHz CPUs,
4 GB PC3200 ECC REG-DDR 400 memory, and 2 PCI-Express x16 slots
(2 buses).  The systems are running a 2.6.20.7 kernel.

Perhaps others can share their experiences with 10-GigE NICs.

-Bill
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Re: In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-09 Thread Bill Fink
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

 There are various agencies/educational institutions doing testing but was 
 curious if anyone has 'found' a 10 gigabit card shootout measuring the 
 performance between 10 gigabit cards on the 2.6 kernel?  Most of the 
 benchmarks are from the vendors themselves Intel/etc-- was wondering if 
 there were any vendor-independent benchmarks out there?
 
 Until switches come down in price, 10gbps will be most relegated to 
 business/research use and therefore such benchmarks probably will be hard 
 to come by but I thought I'd ask..

I haven't done any comparisons with other vendor offerings, but I can
highly recommend the Myricom PCI-Express (8x) 10-GigE NICs.  They only
cost about $900 and can do full unidirectional 10-GigE line rate.  And
as a 10-GigE router, they can do full bidirectional 10-GigE line rate
IP forwarding.  Note the choice of system/motherboard/CPU is as
important as the choice of NIC in achieving maximum performance.

Sample nuttcp test:

chance7 - chance9 10-second TCP test:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# nuttcp -w10m 192.168.88.16
11817.8125 MB /  10.00 sec = 9909.8073 Mbps 100 %TX 71 %RX

The system specs are:

Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895ANRF motherboard with Nvidia nForce
Professional 2200+2050 chipset, 2 AMD Opteron 254 2.8 GHz CPUs,
4 GB PC3200 ECC REG-DDR 400 memory, and 2 PCI-Express x16 slots
(2 buses).  The systems are running a 2.6.20.7 kernel.

Perhaps others can share their experiences with 10-GigE NICs.

-Bill
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In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
There are various agencies/educational institutions doing testing but was 
curious if anyone has 'found' a 10 gigabit card shootout measuring the 
performance between 10 gigabit cards on the 2.6 kernel?  Most of the 
benchmarks are from the vendors themselves Intel/etc-- was wondering if 
there were any vendor-independent benchmarks out there?


Until switches come down in price, 10gbps will be most relegated to 
business/research use and therefore such benchmarks probably will be hard 
to come by but I thought I'd ask..


Thanks,

Justin.


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In search of 10gbps cards/shootout in Linux?

2007-09-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
There are various agencies/educational institutions doing testing but was 
curious if anyone has 'found' a 10 gigabit card shootout measuring the 
performance between 10 gigabit cards on the 2.6 kernel?  Most of the 
benchmarks are from the vendors themselves Intel/etc-- was wondering if 
there were any vendor-independent benchmarks out there?


Until switches come down in price, 10gbps will be most relegated to 
business/research use and therefore such benchmarks probably will be hard 
to come by but I thought I'd ask..


Thanks,

Justin.


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