Intel® DPDK vSwitch

What is Intel® DPDK vSwitch?

The Intel® DPDK Accelerated Open vSwitch (Intel® DPDK vSwitch) is a fork of Open vSwitch, the Open Source multilayer virtual switch found at openvswitch.org.

For more information on the project, check out the Intel® DPDK vSwitch homepage at 01.org.

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Getting Started

To get started right away, we recommend that you check out the documentation contained in the docs directory. These files provide an in-depth overview of the components, system requirements and basic operation of Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch. The documents are written in Markdown format, so for best results, view the documentation using a Markdown viewer, or on GitHub.

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Requirements

Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated against the following Linux distributions:

• Intel® DPDK 1.6
• Wind River Linux 5.1
• Fedora 16

Additionally, Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated on the following processors:

• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
• Intel® Atom® Processor C2000 Family

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Build Instructions

Three different utilities are necessary to build Open vSwitch: Intel® DPDK, QEMU and Open vSwitch. Of these, Intel® DPDK must be built first due to dependencies in Intel® DPDK vSwitch.

• DPDK

  Refer to the Intel® DPDK Getting Started Guide for a relevant make target, eg:

  cd $(DPDK_DIR)
  make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc

• Openvswitch

  cd $(OVS_DIR)/openvswitch
  ./boot.sh
  ./configure RTE_SDK=$(DPDK_DIR)
  make

• QEMU

  cd $(OVS_DIR)/qemu
  ./configure --enable-kvm --dpdkdir=$(DPDK_DIR) --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
  make

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Further Information

For further information, please check out the docs directory, or use the mailing list.

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Contribute

Please submit all questions, bugs and patch requests to the official mailing list. For further information on this process, please refer to the CONTRIBUTE file.

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