Lazy Receiver Processing (LRP): A Network Subsystem Architecture for Server Systems

Peter Druschel and Gaurav Banga

Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Houston, TX  77005

• Introduction
• UNIX Network Processing
  • Overview
  • Problems
  • Sources of High Network Load
• Design of the LRP Architecture
  • Sockets and NI Channels
  • Packet Demultiplexing
  • UDP protocol processing
  • TCP protocol processing
  • Other protocol processing
• Performance
  • Experimental Setup
  • Experimental Results
• Related Work
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
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