Re: [Cake] some comprehensive arm64 w/cake results

[Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>]

> On 19 Sep, 2023, at 1:07 am, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Raspberry Pi 4's just aren't very good at networking because of their I/O architecture on the board, just as they are slow at USB in general. That's why the CM4 is interesting. It's interesting that the PiHole has gotten so popular - it would run better on an Pi with a better network architecture.
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> On the contrary, the Pi 4 has an excellent I/O architecture compared to most of its peers, and especially compared to the previous Pis.  The built-in NIC is internal to the SoC and *NOT* attached via USB any more, so it can genuinely support gigabit speeds.  The USB interface is also fast enough to support a second GigE NIC, though the latency wouldn't be as good as one attached over PCIe.  That's with a standard, off-the-shelf Pi 4B.

Timely breaking news:  the Raspberry Pi 5 has just been announced.

The important new feature here (for us) is that it exposes a PCIe bus lane on the standard model, so you don't have to mess around with the Compute Module just to get access to that.  The built-in Ethernet port is now implemented in a PCIe-attached "southbridge" chip, and the WiFi performance has been improved by accelerating the interface by which the radio is attached.

On the downside, the price has gone up.

 - Jonathan Morton