On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:49:33 +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote: > > Having an implementation nor support a feature of another implementation > > and degrade gracefully to the slower one is not necessarily breakage. > > We need to make a concious decision here, hence the clarifying question. > > As I described above, breakage can happen in some case, and if the patch > breaks xdp_flow I think we need to fix xdp_flow at the same time. If > xdp_flow does not support newly added features but it works for existing > ones, it is OK. In the first place not all features can be offloaded to > xdp_flow. I think this is the same as HW-offload.
I see, that sounds reasonable, yes. Thanks for clarifying.
