receiveside
Receiveside is a term used in computing and networking to denote the portion of a system that handles inbound data traffic. It is not a formal standard but is commonly used to contrast with the sendside, which handles outbound traffic. In networked software, the receiveside encompasses the hardware, drivers, and software components responsible for receiving data, validating it, and delivering it to the appropriate consumer, such as a network application or service.
Key components of the receiveside include the network interface card (NIC), the device driver, and the operating
Typical processing steps involve hardware reception, buffering, demultiplexing of packets to a specific connection, packet header
The balance between receiveside and sendside performance is important for overall system throughput and latency. In
Related concepts include Receive-Side Scaling (RSS), interrupt moderation, and the Linux NAPI interface.