On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:53 AM Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > > Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:52:01PM CEST, amritha.namb...@intel.com wrote: > >This patch introduces a TC range classifier to support filtering based > >on ranges. Only port-range filters are supported currently. This can > >be combined with flower classifier to support filters that are a > >combination of port-ranges and other parameters based on existing > >fields supported by cls_flower. The 'goto chain' action can be used to > >combine the flower and range filter. > >The filter precedence is decided based on the 'prio' value. > > For example Spectrum ASIC supports mask-based and range-based matching > in a single TCAM rule. No chains needed. Also, I don't really understand > why is this a separate cls. I believe that this functionality should be > put as an extension of existing cls_flower.
Exactly. u32 filters support range matching too with proper masks.
