Enabling the TCP segmentation offload to save energy
Raffaele Bolla, Roberto M. Bruschi, Olga Maria Jaramillo Ortiz, Riccardo Rapuzzi · 2013
The aim of this paper is to experimentally evaluate how the enabling of the TCP segmentation offload impacts on the energy consumption of a networked device. To this purpose, we set up a complete testbed that allowed us to perform measurements on energy on a state-of-the-art PC with power management capabilities, and the Linux operating system. From the results we observed that the decrease of the TCP/IP processing in the host CPU allows obtaining an important reduction of the CPU energy consumption.