k13132 / openwrt-dpdk

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) integration into OpenWrt

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) integration into OpenWrt

This repository contains all necessary packages for the compilation of DPDK on OpenWrt.

Packages are assembled by information from https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/howto/openwrt.html

Repository packages

• dpdk - Data Plane Development Kit main package; package contains:
  • libdpdk - DPDK librarioes
  • dpdk-tools - DPDK tools
• kmod-iommu_v2 (required) - kernel-modules support of IOMMU for INTEL/AMD processors; package produces iommu_v2.ko
• kmod-vfio (required) - kernel-modules support of Virtual Function I/O for PCI interfaces; package produces - vfio.ko, vfio-pci.ko, vfio_iommu_type1.ko, vfio_virqfd.ko
• numactl (optional) - Simple NUMA policy support package
• kmod-uio_pci_generic (optional) - kernel-modules support of The Userspace I/O; package produces - uio.ko, uio_pci_generic.ko

Compilation & Installation

Requirements

• Compilation can be done on OpenWrt 21.02 and 22.03.

OpenWrt build configuration

Make a system from sources. Use branches 21.02 or 22.03.

Add this repo to an OpenWrt feed.conf

echo "src-git dpdk_repo https://github.com/k13132/openwrt-dpdk" >> feeds.conf

Update OpenWrt package feeds

./scripts/feeds update dpdk_repo
./scripts/feeds install -a -p dpdk_repo

Use/chose libdpdk, dpdk-tools packages

make menuconfig

Compile DPDK packages

make package/dpdk/compile