I worked at a startup once that made a network card that did this type of buffering (wait for whole HTTP requests, then forward as a lump to the host, across a local fast bus).
Pretty whizzy, definitely helped server scaling.
We started shipping in 2001; the dot-com bust more or less canceled any interest in the product, and canceled the company, too . . .
related but a little different (just FYI): some Intel nics can handle interrupt modulation. Decreased latency but wouldn't fix the open handle/scaling issues here.
Pretty whizzy, definitely helped server scaling.
We started shipping in 2001; the dot-com bust more or less canceled any interest in the product, and canceled the company, too . . .