SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TCP OFFLOAD

摘要

Aspects of the invention may comprise receiving an incoming TCP packet at a TEEC (270) and processing at least a portion of the incoming packet once by the TEEC (270) without having to do any reassembly and/or retransmission by the TEEC (270). At least a portion of the incoming TCP packet may be buffered in at least one internal elastic buffer (280,290) of the TEEC (270). The internal elastic buffer (280,290) may comprise a receive internal elastic buffer (290) and/or a transmit internal elastic buffer (280). Accordingly, at least a portion of the incoming TCP packet may be buffered in the receive internal elastic buffer (290). At least a portion of the processed incoming packet may be placed in a portion of a host memory (230) for processing by a host processor or CPU (210). Furthermore, at least a portion of the processed incoming TCP packet may be DMA transferred to a portion of the host memory (230).