Re: [SOLVED]Re: Only 8 MB/sec write throughput with NetBSD 5.1 AMD64

On 10/9/2011 3:31 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>>> PCIe will handle full duplex 1 gigabit no problem.
>>
>> The claim is true.
>
> My day job is LAN netwwork performance. One lane of PCIe Gen 1 will
> barely handle line rate, but it does handle line rate.
>

Yeah, PCIe x1 is 2 Gbits, which is just enough for full duplex. Since 
it's a serial bus (unlike PCI's shared/arbitrated bus) with dedicated 
bandwidth, you can count on the 2 Gbits at all times too.

Tony