Receive Side Coalescing for accelerating TCP/IP processing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4297 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 289-300

  Makineni, Srihari ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Sarangam, Partha ^a   Newell, Donald ^a   Zhao, Li ^a   Illikkal, Ramesh ^a   Moses, Jaideep ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

De fragmentation; Receive offload; Receive Side Coalescing; RSC; TCP IP acceleration; TOE

Indexed keywords

CPU UTILIZATION; DE-FRAGMENTATION; ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY; MEMORY SPEED; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PACKET LATENCIES; PACKET PROCESSING; PROCESSING COSTS; PROJECTION MODELS; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; SCALE-UP;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; ETHERNET; FLOCCULATION; SPEED;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 48049103315     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11945918_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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