Title :
TCP offload performance for front-end servers
Author_Institution :
Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a detailed modeling of TCP offload in the context of SPECweb99 web-server benchmark in order to assess the impact of offload on the overall server performance. A number of possibilities with respect to offload are considered, including the offload location, data/connection offload and direct/iSCSI based storage. The results indicate that a carefully designed offload engine coupled with a lean host interface can more than double the SPECweb99 performance.
Keywords :
Internet; file servers; transport protocols; front-end servers; offload engine; processor bus; queuing network; transport control protocols; web-server benchmark; Coherence; Context modeling; Delay; Engines; Kernel; Protocols; Scalability; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7974-8
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258835
