[dev] Today's Technical Meeting

Donald Sharp sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com
Tue Feb 6 21:12:35 EST 2018


Michael -

That is one of the actual goals.  There is just a lot of work to do to
unwind code to get to that point.

Evolution is going to take time.

donald

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
> It took me a bit to understand that "Zebra" referred to the daemon, rather
> than the entire project :-)
>
>>This is a lot of work, no way it can be fit in by itself giving our work constraints
>>Long Term goal of where we want to be
>>Threading
>>Allow more flexibility to handle route installation.  Add ability for
>>filters and additional modules to stack in slide 8.  Consider something like
>>route compression, how would we handle this in zebra
>
> It seems to me that the right way forward is to convert to objects that *can*
> be enqueued and processed asynchronously,  but to do all the work
> synchronously until the locking can be worked out.
>
> I've been reading about RUST... it could do so many nice things here :-(
>
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