Prohibit URO coalescing in NIC drivers

microsoft / net-offloads

Specs for new networking hardware offloads.

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Prohibit URO coalescing in NIC drivers #82

Open mtfriesen opened 5 months ago

mtfriesen commented 5 months ago

If a NIC advertises URO hardware offload, it must be implemented in hardware, not purely in the NIC driver. The OS can perform software URO on the NIC's behalf without much performance overhead.