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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2008
Xu Zhou, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Lin Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Guansong Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xu Zhou, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Lin Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Guansong Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for a more efficient transmission of network traffic are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for performing segmentation offloading, such as TCP segmentation offloading (TSO). An interface performs direct virtual memory addressing of a user memory space of a system memory on behalf of a network processor to fetch payload data originated by a user process running on a host processor. Then, the network processor segments the payload data across one or more packets.