System and method for self-configuring and adaptive offload card architecture for TCP/IP and specialized protocols

摘要

An intelligent offload engine to configure protocol processing between a host and the intelligent offload engine in order to improve optimization of protocol processing is provided. The intelligent offload engine provides for evaluating the host and the host environment to identify system parameters associated with the host and a host bus adapter card, wherein the intelligent offload engine exists at the host bus adapter card. Also, the intelligent offload engine determines the ability of the host and the intelligent offload engine to perform protocol processing according to the identified system parameters. In addition, the intelligent offload engine determines an optimal protocol processing configuration between the host and the intelligent offload engine, according to the determined ability of the host to perform protocol processing and the intelligent offload engine ability to perform protocol processing. Moreover, the intelligent offload engine implements the determined optimal protocol processing configuration.