Understanding TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and Large Receive Offload …
Aug 19, 2025 · When TSO is enabled on the transmission path, the NIC divides larger data chunks into TCP segments. When TSO is disabled, the CPU performs segmentation for TCP/IP.
Offload the Segmentation of Large TCP Packets - Windows drivers
Jan 31, 2025 · Learn how NDIS miniport drivers can offload the segmentation of large TCP packets.
TCP offload engine - Wikipedia
Offloading this work to the NIC is called TCP segmentation offload (TSO). For example, a unit of 64 KiB (65,536 bytes) of data is usually segmented to 45 segments of 1460 bytes each before it is sent …
Segmentation Offloads — The Linux Kernel documentation
In order to support TCP segmentation offload it is necessary to populate the network and transport header offsets of the skbuff so that the device drivers will be able determine the offsets of the IP or …
What Is TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)? - phoenixNAP
Jun 3, 2025 · TCP segmentation offload (TSO) is a network optimization technique that offloads the task of segmenting large data blocks into smaller TCP packets from the CPU to the network interface …
Segmentation offload and protocols: Let’s be friends! - Medium
Nov 30, 2024 · TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) perform segmentation offload when transmitting TCP packets. TSO is a hardware offload dating back to the …
Enabling and disabling TCP segmentation offload - IBM
Offloading the TCP segmentation operation from the Linux® network stack to the adapter can lead to enhanced performance for interfaces with predominately large outgoing packets.
Understanding the Segmentation Offload in Linux Virtual Devices
Apr 22, 2024 · Segmentation Offload in Linux refers to the technique of improving throughput by offloading the segmentation process of transport layer protocols such as TCP to the NIC layer.
Overview of TCP Segmentation Offload and Large Receive Offload
Oct 3, 2018 · Support for TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and Large Receive Offload (LRO) is introduced in BIG-IP 11.4.0. The BIG-IP system uses TSO to reduce CPU usage of fast, large …
What is TCP Segmentation Offload - techdocs.broadcom.com
Learn how to use TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) in VMkernel network adapters and virtual machines to improve the network performance in workloads that have severe latency requirements.