On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Mickey Spiegel <mickeys....@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> This patch adds a second logical switch ingress ACL stage, and
> correspondingly a second logical switch egress ACL stage.  This
> allows for more than one ACL-based feature to be applied in the
> ingress and egress logical switch pipelines.  The features
> driving the different ACL stages may be configured by different
> users, for example an application deployer managing security
> groups and a network or security admin configuring network ACLs
> or firewall rules.
>
> Each ACL stage is self contained.  The "action" for the
> highest-"priority" matching row in an ACL stage determines a
> packet's treatment.  A separate "action" will be determined in
> each ACL stage, according to the ACL rules configured for that
> ACL stage.  The "priority" values are only relevant within the
> context of an ACL stage.
>
> ACL rules that do not specify an ACL stage are applied to the
> default "acl" stage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mickey Spiegel <mickeys....@gmail.com>


Could you expand on why priorities in a single stage aren't enough to
satisfy the use case?

-- 
Russell Bryant
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