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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:02:22 +0100

> Just because you want to early microoptimize this thing by saving a
> little of extra code that runs from the control plane path.

I don't think that's what he is doing at all.

We have classes of classifier etc. offloads that need IR, and we have
those that don't.

There is nothing wrong with making this distinction and making our
design based upon that observation.