[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: Document that hw-offload is experimental.

[Flavio Leitner]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:36:49PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Currently, the set of flows that may be offloaded is very small compared
> to the overall capabilities of the OpenFlow support in OVS. In the
> majority of cases, if a user attempts to enable this flag they are
> unlikely to observe a performance increase, because for instance they
> lack the correct hardware; lack the correct kernel version; or their
> flow tables are too complex for the hardware to handle.
> 
> To moderate expectations around this feature, describe it as
> experimental. Over time, we expect that the functionality and usefulness
> of this feature will grow and we should be in a better shape to revisit
> the status of this functionality after it has had some time to mature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>
> ---

Thanks for following up with this Joe.

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>