[netperf-talk] testing two 10G networkcards on same host

[Andrew Gallatin]

Coyne, Kate wrote:
> Also,
>  You should make sure your overall pci bus speed can go(support) to
> 10Gb. Many of the newer Servers can but you want to be sure, as many of
> the past generation did not. 
> Cheers,
> Kate

Good point.

Our NICs have an embedded CPU, and one of the things that
is done when our 10GbE driver is loaded is a small DMA benchmark.
We have some pages where we have DMA benchmark results from a
variety of machines we've had in our lab.

http://www.myri.com/scs/performance/PCIe_motherboards/
http://www.myri.com/scs/performance/PCIe2_motherboards/

Cheers,

Drew