Checksum offloads and protocol ossification

Posted Dec 11, 2015 0:03 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Checksum offloads and protocol ossification by ballombe
Parent article: Checksum offloads and protocol ossification

The latency differences are in the microseconds. But aside from latency, it is also possible to achieve much higher packet rates with a more restricted user-space network stack.