On 03/26/14 11:22, John W. Linville wrote:

This part makes sense to me -- use the hardware forwarding offloads if
they are available, but fall back to software for sake of flexibility.
It gives the admin enough rope to shoot himself in the foot...

This should be left up to policy. Maybe a sysctl? Example:
I should be able to choose whether i want to _only_
use the L3 table in hardware and not in software for certain
traffic which may require lower latency.

cheers,
jamal