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 16:15:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com
Cc:	manish.chopra@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ariel.Elior@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] qed/qede: Add VXLAN tunnel slowpath
 configuration support

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:52:44 +0000

>> 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.

Thanks for explaining.