low-latency high-bandwidth OS bypass user-level messaging for commodity(linux) clusters with commodityNICs(<$200), HELP! (GAMMA/EMP/M-VIA/etc.)

Markus Fischer markus at markus-fischer.de
Wed Dec 18 10:37:56 PST 2002


unfortunately the web site does not mention whether
it was streaming or round trip measurements.

One can assume the streaming (-s) option, though.
The latency is pretty good. Typically only achieved
when running in direct mode over GigEth without
the stack.

Jeff Layton wrote:

>>A good example is easy to find: the Intel GigE NIC series has added
>>about a half dozen new PCI IDs in the past year.  Not just revision
>>numbers, which we don't track, but the major ID number.  Some of those
>>new versions appear to have significant changes in the feature set and
>>in the way they handle small packets to reduce latency.
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>I'm not sure what NICS these are, but I just found some good
>numbers for GigE NICs:
>
>http://www.plogic.com/ll-gige.html
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>They look pretty darn good!
>
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>Jeff
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>>That's a life cycle of about three months, which is shorter than the
>>time to decide a device driver is stable.
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