DOCA_FLOW_PIPE_CONTROL vs DOCA_FLOW_PIPE_ACL

Infrastructure & Networking DOCA Enterprise Networking
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Hello folks,

Can anyone add information about the difference between DOCA_FLOW_PIPE_CONTROL and DOCA_FLOW_PIPE_ACL?
Is there a performance difference or nb flow per pipe?

What I’ve found now it is the difference regarding the ports range functionality.
11.3.11 (Flow Programming Guide - NVIDIA Docs)

For ACL pipe it should work as:
Mask port is 0 ==> Any port
Mask port is equal to match port ==> Exact port. Port with mask 0xffff.
Mask port > match port ==> Match port is used as port from and mask port is used as port to

I dont check it yet.

But for CONTROL pipe it works as:
Mask port > match port ==> 0 is used as port from and mask port is used as port to

Is it undefined behaviour?
doca 2.0.2 version

Thanks in advance

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What is interesting here is the functionality of the PIPE_CONTROL with IP addresses and IP masks according to the description for the PIPE_ACL. Plus there is opportunity to add/delete entries in runtime. The exception is the functionality with a ports range.