Large receive offload
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. In computer networking, large receive offload (LRO) is a technique for increasing inbound throughput of high-bandwidth network connections by reducing CPU overhead. It works by aggregating multiple incoming packets from a single stream into a larger buffer before they are passed higher up the networking stack, thus reducing the number of packets that have to be processed. In Linux, it is generally used in conjunction with the New API (NAPI) to also reduce the number of interrupts.
According to benchmarks, even implementing this technique entirely in software can increase network performance significantly.[1][2][3] As of April 2007, the Linux kernel supports LRO for TCP in software only. FreeBSD 8 supports LRO in hardware on adapters that support it.[4][5][6] [7]
LRO should not be used on machines acting as routers, as it breaks the end-to-end principle and can significantly impact performance.[8][9]
See also
- Large segment offload (LSO)
- New API (NAPI)
- TCP offload engine (TOE)
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