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Design a scalable ethernet Network Interface supporting the large receive offload

Elbeshti et al., 2012

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4881292835628235080
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Elbeshti M
Dixon M
Koziniec T
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2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT)

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The Ethernet speed has increased to 40-100 Gbps since the release of IEEE P802. 3ba. In this paper, we have enhanced the Intel's Large Receive Offload Linux software driver function to manage the out-of-order packets and designed a scalable Network Interface …
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