On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Pierre Pfister <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I added a project proposal for next Hackathon. > It would consist in implementing ILA > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-nvo3-ila-02) in the Vector Packet > Processor (VPP - fd.io). > > ILA is traditionally defined as a bump-in-the-stack, but would in that case > be implemented as a bump-in-the-(virtual)-wire. > > VPP is a DPDK-based open-source extensible framework that provides > out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. The current > source-code (https://git.fd.io/cgit/vpp/) already includes plenty of > different v4 or v6 encapsulation technologies. Given that VPP can be used as > a virtual router, it would be fairly natural to offer a functionality such as > ILA. > > ILA shouldn't be hard to implement as a VPP plugin and is therefore a very > nice candidate to learn a bit about this high-perf platform. If you are > interested in participating or have any question, feel free to get in touch > with us, as well as checkout the code and documentation > (https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP). > > Also, if you have other projects related to ILA, you are very welcome to join > the team ! > It would be even nicer, I guess, to have multiple implementations, or a live > perf test, etc... > > See you in Berlin ! > Awesome! I'll be there. We should be able to share some code shortly for an ILA router in XDP for reference.
Tom > - Pierre > > _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
