Friday, April 05, 2024

Re: TSO support and performance gain

On Friday, April 5th, 2024 at 8:32 PM, Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de> wrote:

> Pure sending will saturate your interface 1/10 Gbit/s. So, it depends
> on your traffic source. The receiving speed of the opposite interface
> will be the bottleneck of the em(4)/bnxt(4) sending interface. Also
> the speed of your disk, when you send local files over network.
>
> TSO in general just helps with bulk traffic like Downloads. If your
> firewall just handles many small TCP connections, it wont help you that
> much.

Thank you both Jan and Claudio for your answers. I understand now that in my specific use case there is hardly any advantage.

Best,
Mabi

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