Evaluation of Network Performance Test Results

After you have completed the network performance test for both Windows CE and Windows XP, you must evaluate the results of the tests to determine if you should optimize your NDIS miniport driver. For example, if the performance results for a Windows CE-based device with x-86 are more than 10 percent slower than the results from Windows XP, you can significantly increase your network performance through optimization. However, if the results are similar, you may not obtain noticeable improvements by optimizing your NDIS miniport driver.

Note   Most likely, data transfers that call the send or recv function with a small buffer size will cause throughput results that can be appreciably lower than transfers that use larger buffer sizes.

Once you have analyzed the results of your network performance test, you can improve performance for an NDIS miniport driver. For more information, see Performance Improvements for an NDIS Miniport Driver.

See Also

Improving Performance of an NDIS Miniport Driver

 Last updated on Tuesday, May 18, 2004

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