Routing benchmarks

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:33:30 +0200
"Jacques Fourie" <jacques.fourie at gmail.com> mentioned:

> Hi,
> 
> I've performed some benchmark tests on my Gumstix Connex 400 (Intel
> Xscale PXA 255 CPU clocked at 400MHz) with a netDuo expansion board.
> This board has two smc network interfaces. I configure the gumstix as
> a router and measure network throughput with netperf running on
> seperate boxes on either side of the gumstix. My initial tests showed
> a TCP throughput of 2Mbit/s. After adapting the smc driver to use DMA
> this figure went up to 7Mbit/s. Although this is a significant
> improvement, it still seems to be a bit slow. Does anyone have any
> tips on how I can go about to try and figure out where the bottleneck
> lies?  Initial profiling showed that a significant amount of time was
> spent doing memory to memory copies of data, but after the DMA change
> profiling does not show any obvious culprits.
> 

Have you tried checking the speed of the interface itself? Without
routing involved? May it be the interfaces itself being so slow?

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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