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Re: SV: Gigabit Ethernet throughput on XScale
Andrew Lunn wrote:
[ ... ]
It sounds reasonable, but it will depend on a number of things eg the
the choice of Ethernet chip, the size of the packets you send, the
available CPU bandwidth, etc.
I would ask around and see if anybody else has a similar setup and see
what performance they get.
Just want to add some numbers here: I use a 216MHz Equator BSP-15, which
is a RISC/DSP hybrid that should roughly compare to other 200MHz RISC
architectures for tasks like networking, with a RealTek 8139 100MBit
PCI ethernet controller. Using TFTP to download images from, I get
around 500kByte/s throughput (this is not a typo, unfortunately). Using
the eCos test programs, I got around 1.8 MByte/s maximum (if I remember
correctly; it may have been half that). Linux on the same architecture
is only marginally faster, so I don't think it's a driver issue (note
that I'm biased, since I wrote the driver 8^).
From a performance perspective, the 8139 is a very poor choice because
it depends very heavily on CPU performance and memory bandwidth. You may
be able to get the performance you need from an Xscale/8139 combination,
but I wouldn't bet on it.
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