In this embodiment, techniques are provided that may permit operations performed by hardware and software to process one or more (e.g., network traffic-related) workloads to be coordinated, at least in part. Such coordination may permit this embodiment to operate in accordance with one or more advantageous usage models, and/or to achieve advantages such as, accelerated network traffic processing, while permitting and/or facilitating a multi-tenant (e.g., software-defined) network environment to be provided, for example, via enforcement of one or more associated policies. Many modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.