AccelTCP - Accelerating Network Applications with Stateful TCP Offloading

Explore a conference talk on AccelTCP, a hardware-assisted TCP stack architecture that leverages programmable network interface cards (NICs) as TCP protocol accelerators. Learn how AccelTCP offloads complex TCP operations to NICs, simplifying host stack operations and freeing up significant CPU cycles for application processing. Discover the benefits of AccelTCP in improving performance for short-lived connections, Redis key-value stores, and HAProxy layer-7 load balancers. Delve into topics such as TCP performance, connection splicing, flow state synchronization, and experimental results demonstrating substantial performance gains in various network applications.