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TCP Offload Through Connection Handoff
Overview This paper presents a connection handoff interface between the operating system and the network interface. Using this interface, the operating system can offload a subset of TCP connections in the system to the network interface, while the remaining connections are processed on the host CPU. Offloading can reduce computation and memory bandwidth requirements for packet processing on the host CPU. However, full TCP offloading may degrade system performance because finite processing and memory resources on the network interface limit the amount of packet processing and the number of connections. Using handoff, the operating system controls the number of offloaded connections in order to fully utilize the network interface without overloading it.
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | April 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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