Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] intel 82599 multi-port performance

From: Chris Friesen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:46:57 -0600

On 09/26/2011 11:24 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 09:40 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:

>> To any of the Intel guys out there...any ideas? Can an 82599 on an 8x
>> bus handle max line rate with minimum size packets?
>
> Rick Jones sent me an interesting link related to this. Short answer seems
> to be 'yes', but it seems not for any normal off-the-shelf software stack.
>
>  > This: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/203602 should
> lead you to some slide.

Interesting.  I wonder if Intel's DPDK will be the only way to handle 
those sorts of packet rates.

Chris

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