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Re: mbuf_outbound_finalize bug?
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Re: mbuf_outbound_finalize bug?


  • Subject: Re: mbuf_outbound_finalize bug?
  • From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:41:05 -0500 (EST)

Josh Graessley writes:
 >
 > Why am I so opposed to hardware checksums? Two reasons. First,

<...>

 > throughout the stack. Offloading more of the TCP stack on to hardware
 > leads to similar problems. Mmmm canned worms.

Is this what is preventing Apple from implementing other stateless
offloads, such as TCP Segmentation Offload (also known as Large Send
Offload)?  AFAIK, Darwin/MacOSX is the only major OS kernel to not
support TSO these days, and it really hurts your performance.

Drew


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