[ovs-dev] [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API

[Thomas Graf]

On 09/22/14 at 03:40pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> 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.
> >
> How is this different from what rx-filtering already does?

Without stateful offload I can't know where the packet is destined
to until after I've allocated an skb and parsed the packet in
software. I might be missing what you refer to here specifically.