
• Interrupt Coalescing
– Improves throughput, but degrades latency
• Jumbo Frames
– No latency impact; Incompatible with existing switches
• Hardware Checksum Engines
– Checksum performed in hardware significantly faster
– Shown to have minimal benefit independently
• Segmentation Offload Engines (a.k.a. Virtual MTU)
– Host processor “thinks” that the adapter supports large Jumbo
frames, but the adapter splits it into regular sized (1500-byte) frames
– Supported by most HSE products because of its backward
compatibility considered “regular” Ethernet
– Heavily used in the “server-on-steroids” model
• High performance servers connected to regular clients
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