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Isn't this what BPF and XDP try to target with their SmartNIC offloading, like the ones supported from Metronome?

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Sure. And switch ASICs hang off a CPU as a PCIe device, so the line between smartNICs and low end ASICs start to blur. The key is hardware acceleration of some sort.

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