From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:55:33 -0700
> If in the future mlx will make it into the nic in a way that > encryption shares all memory management logic and there is no fpga > at all then it indeed will be similar to tc offload. Right now it's > not and needs different sw architecture. If the visible effect is identical, I fundamentally disagree with you. I don't care if there is a frog sitting on the PHY that transforms the packets, it's all the same if the visible behavior is identical.