Optimizing TCP receive performance

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-98

  Menon, Aravind ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINUX;

CHECKSUMMING; DATA COPYING; GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE SUPPORTS; MODERN PROCESSORS; PREFETCHING; RECEIVE PROCESSING; TCP PERFORMANCE;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84883467849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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