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Description
Memif is a very high performance memory based interface available in vpp or via the C libmemif. It functions by exchanging shard memory over a unix file socket, and then tx/rx-ing packets over that shared memory. libmemif exists for writing programs in C/C++ and other languages for interacting with memif. Go can bind to C via CGO, but CGO is a miserable developer experience compared to pure Go.
This project is to write a Pure Go library for interacting with memif sufficient to allow the writing of packet processors in Go that can utilize memif without linking in C code or using CGO.
The intern is expected to learn:
Deliverables:
FD.io VPP utilizes memif as a high performance interface between different CNFs. The more broadly memif is adoptable, the better for VPP.
Undergraduate should be fine as long as they have programming experience. This projects presumes the ability to program generally.
Skills in Go are highly preferred. Ability to read C code is extremely helpful.
Promotion to those interested in playing with packet processing in Go.
Either 40 hours a week for 12 weeks or 20 hours a week for 24 weeks are acceptable.
Ed Warnicke - hagbard@gmail.com - edwarnicke on the FD.io slack
Frederick Kautz - fkautz@gmail.com - fkautz on the CNCF slack