On 2018-09-29 10:53, Jérôme Benoit wrote: > Le 28/09/2018 à 18:55, Rosen Penev a écrit : >> >> So in kernel 4.17 I believe landed flow offloading support. This >> accomplishes something similar to SFE while being a proper upstream >> solution. This is already implemented in OpenWrt. > > flow offloading for NAT is different from SFE : > > In the first case, you offload the NATing algorithm work to the hardware > that support it, which narrow a lot the supported targets. > In the second case, you optimize the NATing algorithm Linux kernel > implementation for all targets, it's a software and generic optimization. Flow offloading (as implemented in OpenWrt on 4.14) supports both hardware offload and generic software offload for routing and NAT. SFE is not necessary anymore.
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