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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:49:33 -0800

> Any setup with about 20 rules to be evaluated (per packet cost) will
> feel the pain...
> 
> I wonder if we could JIT/eBPF this thing.

That's true for the software implementation angle.

But I bet anyone actually using this thing will get it hardware
offloaded.