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Merge pull request #57990 from xenolinux/hardware-offloading
OCPBUGS#10848: Enable hardware offloading for pods
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modules/nw-sriov-hwol-about-hardware-offloading.adoc

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In all cases, hardware offloading takes place only when those pods and services are assigned to nodes that have a compatible SmartNIC.
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Suppose, for example, that a pod on a node with hardware offloading tries to communicate with a service on a regular node.
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On the regular node, all the processing takes place in the kernel, so the overall performance of the pod-to-service communication is limited to the maximum performance of that regular node.
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Hardware offloading is not compatible with DPDK applications.
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Hardware offloading is not compatible with DPDK applications.
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Enabling hardware offloading on a node, but not configuring pods to use, it can result in decreased throughput performance for pod traffic. You cannot configure hardware offloading for pods that are managed by {product-title}.

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