naushit / 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
• numactl - Simple NUMA policy support package
• kmod-amd_iommu_v2 - kernel-modules support of IOMMU for AMD processors; package produces amd_iommu_v2.ko
• kmod-uio_pci_generic - kernel-modules support of The Userspace I/O; package produces - uio.ko, uio/uio_pci_generic.ko
• kmod-vfio-pci - 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

Compilation & Installation

Requirements

• Compilation can be done on OpenWrt 19.07 or newer.
• OpenWrt and all packages must be compiled against glibc!

OpenWrt build configuration

Make a system from sources.

• Select x86 in Target System
• Select x86_64 in Subtarget
• Select Build the OpenWrt SDK for cross-compilation environment
• Select Use glibc in Advanced configuration options (for developers) then ToolChain Options and C Library implementation

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

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

Use/chose libdpdk, dpdk-tools packages

make menuconfig

Compile DPDK packages

make package/dpdk/compile