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At its simplest, TCP offload can be just letting the hardware chunk a large packet into smaller ones on the wire. I don't think anything trying to offload more than that has really seen much daylight outside of very proprietary "smart NICs".

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/segmenta...

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/tso




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