| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the early initialization of transmission of data in a network interface that includes a dedicated transmit buffer in a system which includes logic for transferring frames of data composed by a host computer into the transmit buffer. SOLUTION: The amount of data of the frame which is downloaded by the host to the transmit buffer is monitored to make a threshold determination of an amount of data of the frame resident in the transmit data buffer (34). A network interface controller includes logic (36) for initiating transmission of the frame when the threshold determination indicates that a majority of the frame is resident in the transmit buffer, and prior to transfer of all of the data of the frame buffer (34) into the transmit buffer. The monitoring logic includes a storage device (43), which is programmable for storing a threshold value. Thus, the threshold value may be set by a host system to optimize performance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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