[Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT

[Mark Kelly]

Does this driver work well with bridging?  

Chris,  

If you are listening, do you have the IAL patched to work with the newer
kernels, specifically 2.6.23 or 2.6.24?


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:53 -0500, David Acker wrote:

> David Acker wrote:
> > Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
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> >> Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit :
> >>>>> Was wondering if someone else was experiencing the same problem or if
> >>>>> you guys are using the bare IAL 2.4?
> >> I have tested Kamikaze 7.09 + IAL 2.4 (including patches from Gateworks
> >> found in their BSP). That was quite a bit of porting but it's working.
> >> Performance seems to be back (60 Mbits over the Ethernet port tested
> >> using iperf). However, without any other applications, the CPU Load
> >> keeps increasing over time, up to value > 1. Thus, it's still not fully
> >> usable.
> > 
> > I use a gw2348 with 2.6.18.4 and one of the earlier open source drivers (never made it to mainline), 
> > http://www.hohnstaedt.de/ixp_npe/ , version 2.1. I found the IAL horrible and dumped it.  For TCP iperf sending from the 
> > avila to a pc I get around 90 mbps and 88 mbps when the avila is receiving.  60 mbps sounds kind of low to me.
> > -Ack
> Note, I am using a gw2348-4 with a CPU running at 533 Mhz.  The gw2348-2's CPU seems to run at 266 Mhz so perhaps 60 
> mbps is ok.
> -Ack
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