Broadcom Develops "TCP/IP Chimney Offload" for Enterprise Servers

Broadcom is working with Microsoft on a "Chimney Offload" technology for enterprise servers equipped with next-generation high-speed Ethernet adapters. Microsoft's Chimney Offload architecture would redirect most of the tasks related to TCP/IP processing to the network controller, reducing networking-related CPU overhead. The companies said other approaches to TCP/IP offload technology have not addressed the issue of seamless integration with the operating system's TCP/IP networking stack. The result is two or more independent and different TCP/IP implementations running on a single server. Broadcom will offer an adapter optimized to interoperate with Microsoft's Chimney architecture.
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