Rust BF Runtime Interface (RBFRT)

• Rust BF Runtime Interface (RBFRT)
  • Overview
  • Features
  • Documentation
  • Cite

Overview

This repository contains the source code of Rust Barefoot Runtime (RBFRT): Fast Runtime Control for the Intel Tofino (preprint paper).

The RBFRT is a Rust-based control plane library. It provides a fast and memory-safe interface to configure the Intel Tofino. It uses gRPC and the official Protobuf definitions of the Open-Tofino GitHub repository.

Features

• BFRuntime gRPC Interface - High-level table, register, and digest operations

• Thrift PD API Support (optional) - Low-level platform-dependent operations

  • Port MTU configuration
  • Traffic Manager (TM) APIs
  • Multicast and pipeline management

  To enable the optional Thrift PD API support in your project, activate the thrift-support feature:

  [dependencies]
  rbfrt = { version = "0.1.9", features = ["thrift-support"] }
  

Documentation

The documentation of this crate is deployed as a GitHub page.

Cite

If you use RBFRT in any of your publications, please cite the following papers:

1. E. Zink, M. Flüchter, S. Lindner, F. Ihle, and M. Menth: Rust Barefoot Runtime (RBFRT): Fast Runtime Control for the Intel Tofino, in KuVS Workshop on Network Softwarization (KuVS NetSoft), Apr. 2025, online

@article{ZiFl25,
  title  = {{Rust Barefoot Runtime (RBFRT): Fast Runtime Control for the Intel Tofino}},
  author = {Etienne Zink and Moritz Flüchter and Steffen Lindner and Fabian Ihle and Michael Menth},
  journal = {{KuVS Workshop on Network Softwarization (KuVS NetSoft)}}
  year   = 2025,
  month  = apr
}