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From: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:44:03 +0200

> 	- Add performance info (David)

Ummm...

Whilst cpu utilization is interesting, I might be mainly interested in
how this effects "networking" performance.  I find it very surprising
that it isn't obvious that this is what I wanted.

Do you not do performance testing on the networking level when you
make fundamental changes to how packets are processed by the
hardware/driver?