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Feb 3rd
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Keynote 2 The State-of-the-Art of 10GbE TCP
Offload Technology
Michael Chen (Chelsio Communications)
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TCP offload has been a controversial technology, partly because past implementations showed little or no performance benefit and no cost advantages.
With the recent advance of 10 Gbps Ethernet, and the resulting CPU / network performance gap, TCP offload is worth revisiting.
This talk shows that a properly designed TCP offload engine can significantly outperform non-offloaded NICs, in both latency and throughput.
This talk also covers the state-of-the-art TOE technologies, architectures, special features that support LFN, video streaming, direct data placement, etc.
Furthermore, with the reliable transport layer implemented in hardware, it becomes possible to offload expensive byte touching operations and protocol functionality at higher layers,
such as iSCSI and RDMA, further increasing the value of the technology. |
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