[Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT

[David Acker]

Mark Kelly wrote:
> Does this driver work well with bridging? 
We are using our own router software over it that does bridging with 
this driver without any issues.  I can't say how well the standard linux 
bridging driver works with it.
-Ack


> 
> 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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