Adaptive receive path learning to facilitate combining TCP offloading and network adapter teaming

One or more modules, comprising:

• a first portion of the one or more modules, configured to team together a plurality of physical network interface ports of a computing system to appear as a single virtual network interface port to a switch having a corresponding plurality of ports to which the plurality of physical ports are linked;
• a second portion of the one or more modules, configured to determine a receive port upon which a packet of a TCP session was received, wherein the receive port is one of the plurality of physical network interface ports of the virtual network interface port;
• and
• a third portion of the one or more modules, configured to assign a transmit port to be the receive port, wherein the transmit port is used by the computing system to transmit packets of the TCP session;
• wherein the third portion assigns the transmit port to be the receive port prior to a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) offload engine (TOE) of the computing system being enabled to offload from a CPU of the computing system processing of packets of the TCP session transceived on the assigned transmit/receive port.

A computer program product encoded in at least one non-transitory computer usable medium, the computer program product comprising:

• computer usable program code embodied in said medium, the computer usable program code comprising:
• first program code for teaming together a plurality of physical network interface ports of a computing system to appear as a single virtual network interface port to a switch having a corresponding plurality of ports to which the plurality of physical ports are linked;
• second program code for determining a receive port upon which a packet of a TCP session was received, wherein the receive port is one of the plurality of physical network interface ports of the virtual network interface port;
• and
• third program code for assigning a transmit port to be the receive port, wherein the transmit port is used by the computing system to transmit packets of the TCP session;
• wherein the third program code assigns the transmit port to be the receive port prior to a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) offload engine (TOE) of the computing system being enabled to offload from a CPU of the computing system processing of packets of the TCP session transceived on the assigned transmit/receive port.