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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink
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On 09/22/14 at 03:40pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/eBtMaohhA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > What makes stateful offload interesting to me is that the final
> > desintation of a packet is known at RX and can be redirected to a
> > queue or VF. This allows to build packet batches on shared pages
> > while preserving the securiy model.

To put this in other words: It is equivalent to applying the snabbswitch
+ vhost-user principle to the kernel but with encap support. The SR-IOV
case would be a further optimization of that.