Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/6] net: sched: propagate "skip_sw" flag to struct flow_cls_common_offload

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:52:46 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The most that the switchdev port
> can do is to extract the matching packets from its offloaded data path
> and send them to the CPU.

FTR devices implementing OVS offload can attach metadata to such
packets, and then the driver does the redirect. The SW TC path is 
not engaged. IIRC OVS has a concept of internal ports which are
"stack facing" ports in addition to the main bridge device.
And in some offloaded configurations people want HW to redirect 
to those.