On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch> wrote:
> On 09/22/14 at 03:40pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Graf <tg...@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.

n-tuple filtering in as exposed by ethtool.
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