Gigabit ethernet support of ppc440gx in 2.6 and 2.4

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Thu Feb 16 15:49:48 EST 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:45:15PM +0800, ????????? wrote:
> Does the TCP/IP Acceleration Hardware of 440GX have been supported 
> in official 2.6 kernel?
> How about the CPU utilization when you get 900+Mb/s? Since we want 
> to do something such as simple datas codec at the same time.

My driver (both 2.4 and 2.6) supports TCP/UDP checksum offload. No TSO 
yet.

I don't remember exact CPU load numbers, but it was less than 20% for 
TX case (Ocotea was transmitting data).

-- 
Eugene




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