On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:35:19PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > I'm not sure of the value of the new 'put_actions' member.  It only
> > gets used in one place.  That place can't compose_slow_path() itself?
> > It did before this commit.
> 
> So in the final patch, dpif-netdev will use the put_actions to figure
> exactly what to install for slow path actions.  An alternative would
> be for the upcall callback to somehow indicate that slow path actions
> are required, and that it should do the conversion itself.  Do you
> think that might be cleaner?

No.  Having now read the final patch, let's stick with this design for
now.

> > recv_upcalls() and exec_upcalls() have a lot of code in common.  Can
> > recv_upcalls() use exec_upcalls() as a helper?
> 
> Yep, this is just an intermediate issue, the very next patch fixes
> this.  I'd prefer to leave it if that's alright as it makes the diffs
> a bit cleaner.

OK.

Thanks,

Ben.
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