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Re: [Coin] P4 runtime etc.

<hemant@mnkcg.com> Sun, 21 July 2019 12:59 UTC

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Andrew,

 

Are you talking about p4runtime server or client?  The client is part of the ONOS controller.  The server,  which runs on the switch, at this open repo, uses mostly C++ for implementation.  The test scripts use Python.

 

https://github.com/p4lang/PI

 

The PI code integrates with switch asic SDK. If the p4runtime implementation moves from C++ to GoLang, please look into how to call SDK API from GoLang.

 

Hemant

 

From: Coin <coin-bounces@irtf.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Alston
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 8:06 AM
To: coin@irtf.org
Subject: [Coin] P4 runtime etc.

 

Hi All,

 

So after yesterday’s hackathon session and a brief bit of sleep – I decided to take a look at implementing other code we had using a p4 data plane – now that was interesting – because when I started looking at the p4runtime implementations etc. – as stated, they use grpc – but there is actually a fair bit in there in the python libraries.

 

So – What I’ve started – and am in the very very early stages of doing – is creating a Golang port of the p4 runtime libraries – this will let me handle the Protobufs and GRPC calls correctly from Golang.  As I move on this – I’ll happily opensource this code and share it as it comes – and I’ll request some of my team to get involved in this as well.  

 

If there are any golang coders out there interested in assisting with this project – I’d be happy to discuss.  I’ll also get details this morning about where we can commit code to a public repo so we can check the code in etc as we go in case anyone else has a use case for it

 

Thanks

 

Andrew

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