netdev - RE: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] qed/qede: Add VXLAN tunnel slowpath configuration support

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:52:44 +0000
From:	Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@...gic.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@...gic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] qed/qede: Add VXLAN tunnel slowpath
 configuration support

> Why do you call all of these offloads the "slowpath"?

We term by 'slowpath' all the non {data,fast}path configurations,
I.e., everything that doesn't really involves the ingress/egress handling
of packets but rather the infrastructure changes surrounding it.

That exactly what we have in this patch - adding the ndo hooks
necessary for configuring the FW/HW in the proper mode to support
vxlan tunnels.

Only the last patch in the series is actually adding the fastpath stuff.