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cilium, docs: add note to upgrade guide on host routing
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Add note to upgrade guide with regards to host routing probing.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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Expand Up @@ -380,6 +380,14 @@ The following metrics have been removed:
install --set ipv4.enabled=true``. The following section calls out specific
values where the prefix cannot be simply dropped followed by a full
table of old and new Helm values.
* On Linux kernel v5.10 and above, running the agent with BPF kube-proxy replacement
under direct routing operation as well as BPF-based masquerading will bypass
subsystems like netfilter/iptables in the host namespace in order to significantly
improve throughput and latency for the BPF datapath given routing is not performed
in the host stack but directly in BPF instead. To opt-out from this behavior,
the Helm option ``bpf.hostRouting=true`` can be used. If the underlying kernel
does not implement the needed BPF features, then the agent will fallback and rely
on host routing automatically.

.. _1.9_helm_options:

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