Posted to tcl by dburns at Sat Nov 19 20:59:15 GMT 2016view raw

  1. "It can be used with standard Winsock sockets and the newly introduced RIO (Registered I/O) sockets.
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  3. To enable the fast path:
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  5. Both ends of the TCP session must enable the capability by setting the SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH IOCTL.
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  7. The process initiating the TCP connection must set the SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH IOCTL prior to establishing the TCP session.
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  9. The target of the connection request must set the SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH IOCTL on the listen socket, that is, prior to accepting the connection.
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  11. This capability requires Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8.
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