Afterburner: Architectural Support for High-Performance Protocols
Chris Dalton, Greg Watson, D. D. Banks, Costas Calamvokis, A.M. Edwards, John Lumley · 1993
network interfaces, TCPIIP, Gb/s networks, network protocols Current workstations are often unable to make linklevel bandwidth available to user applications. We argue that this poor performance is caused by unnecessary copying of data by the various network protocols. We describe three techniques that can reduce the number of copies performed, and we explore one the single copy technique in further detail.