[Click] Performances and Ethernet Pro 100 Support

[Beyers Cronje]

Have a look at the INSTALL and FAQ docs. All information on how to compile
the polling driver is in there.

On 1/24/06, Sébastien LAVEZE <slaveze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been testing click in pure IP forwarding and I would like to know it
> these results seem to be "normal"
>
> The test PC is a low performance PC in order to be able to extrapolize
> performances on an embedded system
> Intel Celeron 433 with 128 Ram and two 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100 Cards
> The test is performed in full duplex
>
> The results are
> Linux NAPI ==> 110K pps
> Click in kernel mode ==> 54K pps
>
> I thought that these NICS were supported in polling mode but apparently
> not,
> Click  says polling isn't supported
>
> Do u think by adding the polling support I could achieve really better
> performances (better than Linux with NAPI)??
> And if yes do u have a guideline on what to modify in the drivers ??
> By the way i'm using Linux 2.6.13.2
>
> Thanks
> Sebastien
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