On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:58:57PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > > So if the goal is to make the intent available to the hardware in > a format which both the kernel and the hardware can draw the same > conclusions from, wouldn't something like P4 + BPF derived from P4 > be a possibly better fit? There is discussion on stateful P4 > processing now.
p4 is a high level language and absolutely not suitable for such purpose. bpf as intermediate representation can be generated from p4 or C or other language. There is room to innovate in the language definition on top and in HW design at the bottom. That's the most flexible model. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
