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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:21:08 +0200
From: Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@....mpg.de>
To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Channel bonding with e1000
Hi Jesse,
Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
>> 05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller (rev 03)
>> 05:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet
>> Controller (rev 03)
>
> This chip is connected over PCI-X and should be significantly slower
> and/or higher CPU utilization than the ESB2 based chip.
At first I couldn't believe it since I put in some of the cards myself
and those were PCIe x1 cards. But checking with lshw it looks you are
right (and the expert anyway):
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@01:00.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@05:02.0
logical name: eth2
version: 03
serial: 00:1b:21:0d:c4:2c
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.20-k2-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=52
link=no mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: iomemory:d8080000-d809ffff
iomemory:d8000000-d803ffff ioport:3000-303f irq:28
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@05:02.1
logical name: eth3
version: 03
serial: 00:1b:21:0d:c4:2d
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.20-k2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A
ip=172.28.11.4 latency=52 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pai
r speed=100MB/s
resources: iomemory:d80a0000-d80bffff
iomemory:d8040000-d807ffff ioport:3040-307f irq:29
>
> It shouldn't matter, but I would take into consideration that the ESB2
> ports should be faster.
>
We'll start looking into this soon and try to get some tests underway.
>
> PS in the future questions like this could be cc:'d to
> e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net where all the Intel wired developers
> hang out (in addition to netdev)
Sorry, I should have remembered that one from ~6-9 months ago. Sorry,
I'll start with that mid-thread (and another sorry for that).
Cheers
Carsten
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