Internals of NDIS driver for VirtIO based network adapter

Internals of NDIS driver for VIRTIO based network adapter

This document contains implementation notes of Windows network adapter driver of VirtIO network device.

Abbreviations in the document

· LSO, a.k.a. GSO, a.k.a. TSO – Large, Global, Transmit segment offload – the same thing in context of Windows driver.

· OOB – out-of-band packet data; set of structures, associated with packet

· SG – scatter-gather

· MTU – maximal transfer unit

· MSS – maximal segment size

· CS – checksum

· MDL – memory descriptor list

· WL – waiting list

· DUT – device under test