Hairpin - Offloading Load Balancer and Gateway Applications - Ori Kam, Mellanox

Speakers: Ori Kam
This presentation is detailing the hairpin feature which is used to offload forwarding traffic from the wire back to the wire, while modifying the packet header.
This feature is managed via ethdev and is proposed in 19.11.
The hairpin is a good fit for QoS features.
It will show the use cases and the improvements that can be achieved using this feature.
It will also show the future roadmap for this including hairpin between port and devices.

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