There are a number of benefits of using stateful flow management.
Benefits for packet processing
When using stateful flow management, all packets
belonging to the same flow:
- Are handled in the same way.
- Are sent to the same queue, process or thread.
- Have the same flow ID included in the metadata, which enables application acceleration.
Benefits for flow processing
When using stateful flow management, flows have these
features:
- Metadata and metrics can be collected in the SmartNIC.
- Flow Info records can be delivered to the application at flow termination.
- There is one Flow Info record for each bidirectional flow with metadata and metrics in each direction.
- NetFlow/IPFIX is supported.