High Performance and High available Service Function Chaining in Programmable Data Plane

This is a P4 (P4_16) implementation of service function chaining Our implementation includes the following SFC core components and functions.

• Classifier
  • Service Function Path assignment
  • SFC encapsulation
• Service Function Forwarder (SFF)
  • SF forwarding
  • SFC Decapsulation

System Requirements

• Ubuntu 14.04+
• P4 BMv2
• p4c
• p4Runtime

We highly recommend to use a VM of P4 tutorials that has all of the required software installed.

Note that this implementation has only been tested in BMv2. Therefore, it may not work as is on production P4-enabled programmable switches.