Urgent Data Processing - Urgent Data Processing - UG1586

Onload User Guide (UG1586)

Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2026-01-22
Revision
1.4 English

TCP urgent data processing is a rarely-used feature that is inconsistently implemented on various operating systems. In Onload 201811 a new EF_TCP_URG_MODE environment variable has been added, that can be used to ignore this feature.

Important: If urgent data is received when Onload is configured to ignore urgent data processing, it is intermingled with the main data stream. If an application relies on such packets forming a separate data stream, this results in the data it receives being corrupted.