PoC or production ready?

[mjgarton]

PoC or production ready?

[hsheth2]

We originally made GoNet as a proof-of-concept while we were writing our paper. However, we do intend to continue development until it is production-ready.

Some things that we were planning on doing:

• Add IPv6 support
• Improve the stack's routing functionality
• Ensure the correctness of the protocol implementations
• Remove references to unneeded objects after use (allowing them to be freed by the garbage collector)

For a production implementation, we too are concerned about correctness. We do believe that the overall design of the network stack makes it both simple and fast.

If you think these goals align suitably with your own, feel free to contribute.

[iwanbk]

@hsheth2 thanks for this amazing work :)

Is there a plan to make it a complete user space network stack? bypass the kernel entirely.

Something like https://github.com/eunyoung14/mtcp?

[omegablitz]

We do not currently have plans to bypass the kernel entirely, although we may look into it in the future. As of now, we are focusing on making the existing implementation production ready.