netdev - Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:12:15 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
CC:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	dborkman <dborkman@...hat.com>, ogerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
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	ronye@...lanox.com, Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath
 hardware offload

On 08/26/14 11:01, Scott Feldman wrote:
>

>
> I don’t see it that way.  I believe sw_flow can be the intermediary representation to span flow-based and non-flow-based HW,
> and from flow-based world and traditional l2/l3 world.
>
>

Is there more magic to this than what Thomas just presented in this thread?

cheers,
jamal
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