Patent ID: 9110694
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: connecting first and second logical partitions to a shared virtual adapter, the first logical partition having a maximum receive unit (MRU) different than a MRU of the second logical partition; responsive to receiving data by the shared virtual adapter destined for the first or second logical partitions, performing transmission control protocol (TCP) segmentation offload processing of the data by the shared virtual adapter utilizing the MRU of the first logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the first logical partition and utilizing the MRU of the second logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the second logical partition; receiving by the shared virtual adapter an address resolution protocol (ARP) response packet corresponding to the first logical partition; and identifying the MRU for the first logical partition from the ARP response packet.