bge bad performance

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 25 Jan 2013, at 11:45, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Hi,
> It seems that I have more issues with the bge,
>     Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x5720000
> 
> ifconfig says:
> bge2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=c019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTS
> O,LINKSTATE>
> ether xx...
> inet6 xxx prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
> inet xxx... netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast yyy
> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> 
> iperf reports
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   230 MBytes   193 Mbits/sec
> 

Post your iperf command line and explain the test environment, as in direct connection vs switched network link ?