LWN: Comments on "Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 2" https://lwn.net/Articles/810663/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 2". en-us Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:58:59 +0000 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:58:59 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 2 https://lwn.net/Articles/811289/ https://lwn.net/Articles/811289/ pabs <div class="FormattedComment"> Does the offload support trust the offload hardware or does it also re-apply the netfilter rules after the filtering done by the offload hardware?<br> </div> Sun, 02 Feb 2020 04:14:39 +0000 Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 2 https://lwn.net/Articles/811227/ https://lwn.net/Articles/811227/ johill <div class="FormattedComment"> I don't see it in the code on a cursory look, but I guess they should use netlink extended ACK by passing down the "extack" pointer, so that an error string can be returned to the user in addition to the cryptic "-EOPNOTSUPP", or "-ENOSPC" or whatever happens.<br> </div> Fri, 31 Jan 2020 20:53:39 +0000