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14 years ago

Improve performance of TSE on Stratix IV GX

Hello, I'm using the Standard design of Stratix IV on which I put the Nios II Simple Socket Server in order to receive incoming data from my other computer. I managed to establish a TCP/IP...
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14 years ago

Putting the stack on an on-chip memory will help. Did you remember to compile with optimisations? Going from -O0 to -O2 is what gave me the highest speed boost.

With so small packets you won't get a very high performance unfortunately, because what takes time is the header processing and not the data transfer by itself. Do you have any way of combining data from several packets into bigger ones? This will give you a big speed boost too.