Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch

What is Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch?

The Intel(R) DPDK Accelerated Open vSwitch (Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch) is a fork of the open source Open vSwitch multilayer virtual switch found at http://openvswitch.org/.

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

Getting Started

To get started right away, we recommend that you check out the latest version of the Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch Getting Started Guide hosted on 01.org. This document gives an in-depth overview of the components, system requirements and basic operation of Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch.

Build Instructions

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

• DPDK

  Refer to the Intel(R) 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
  

Further Information

For further information, please check out the Getting Started Guide, or use the mailing list.

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.