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From: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:31:56 -0400

> Using current TC code, it is very slow to insert a lot of rules.
> 
> In order to improve the rules update rate in TC,
> we introduced the following two changes:
>         1) changed cls_flower to use IDR to manage the filters.
>         2) changed all act_xxx modules to use IDR instead of
>            a small hash table
> 
> But IDR has a limitation that it uses int. TC handle uses u32.
> To make sure there is no regression, we add several new IDR APIs
> to support unsigned long.
> 
> v2
> ==
> 
> Addressed Hannes's comment:
> express idr_alloc in terms of idr_alloc_ext and most of the other functions

Series applied, thanks.