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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Amit Gil, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Shaul Yohai Yifrach, Haifa, IL;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Alternate acknowledgment (ACK) signals in a coalescing Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) system are disclosed. In one aspect, a network interface card (NIC) examines packet payloads, and the NIC generates an ACK signal for a sending server before sending a coalesced packet to an internal processor. Further, the NIC may examine incoming packets and send an ACK signal to the internal processor for ACK signals that are received from the sending server before sending the coalesced packet to the internal processor. By extracting and sending the ACK signals before sending the corresponding payloads in the coalesced packet, latency that would otherwise be incurred waiting for the ACK signal is eliminated. Elimination of such latency may improve network performance and may provide power savings.