ppc405ex + gigabit ethernet

[LiuMing]

Yes. If you enable jumbo frames, the results will be definitely better. My result is with jumbo frame of 8982 enabled. 

 

If you say your CPU is 600 MHz, I guess there is still potential for you to improve the speed. In our case we had only 300 MHz and got a similar value of yours. Of course, there are many other issues which can be enabled to improve the performance, such as interrupt coaleasing, hardware checksum processing, etc.. Since we used Xilinx FPGA with embedded PowerPC and HW TEMAC, some work can be done with FPGA hardware resources. I don't know your case and it's hard to say how can you further improve. 

 

BR

Ming
 


Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:24:41 +0200
Subject: Re: ppc405ex + gigabit ethernet
From: lada.podivin at gmail.com
To: eemingliu at hotmail.com
CC: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org

Thank you for your reply!
Yes, I agree the CPU is the bottleneck. But I have performed more tests with the netperf tool and results seem strange to me. If I send 800 B of data, the resulting speed is aproximately 100 Kb/s. On the other hand, If I try to send 32KB chunk of data with jumbo frames turned on, resulting speed is about 600 Kb/s (300-400 without jumbo frames). My ppc405ex runs at 600 MHz.

So it seems that it is definetely better idea to call sendto() less frequently with bigger amounts of data, than to call it more often with smaler amounts. Is it because smaller data means more frequent user space/kernel space switching? Or is it network related issue?  

Thanks!

Best,
Lada


2009/7/1 LiuMing <eemingliu at hotmail.com>


Hi,
According to our experience on PPC405 + Gigabit Enet, your result is already very reasonable. For UDP transmission, it can be around 400 Kb/s because of the CPU bottleneck (in our case 300 MHz ppc405). If you want to further improve it, a faster CPU is needed to process the TCP/IP stack, or you may buy commercial TCP/IP stack rather than using the free Linux one. 
 
BR
Ming
 


Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:58:53 +0200
Subject: ppc405ex + gigabit ethernet
From: lada.podivin at gmail.com
To: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org




Hi,

I benchmarked performance of my network, which contains ppc405EX (Kilauea board, kernel 2.6.30 from Denx) connected with a linux desktop via gigabit ethernet. I used the netperf tool: 

netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H 192.168.1.1 -- -m 32768

So I was sending UDP packets to the desktop. The resulting speed was about 370 Kb/s. I tried to send the packets to several different computers - with the same result. So the ppc board is the bottleneck in this case.

Is there any possibility to improve the gigabit capabilities of the ppc405EX? Is there anyone who achieved a better performance with ppc4xx boards?

Thanks!

Best,
Lada Podivin





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