DPDK Training

I will try to cover DPDK from basic to advance with example code. And also explain about DPDK internal to understand it in detail.

To gain more, you must practice example by running them.

I am using ubuntu 20.04 OS and current DPDK stable release version v20.11.

Installation

• Execute below command to setup development environment.

  apt install build-essential
  apt install python3 python3-pip
  pip3 install meson ninja
  apt install python3-pyelftools
  apt install libnuma-dev
  apt install wget git vim
  apt install -y pkg-config
  

Please refer to DPDK document to install packages as per your selected linux version / other OS.

• Checkout DPDK source code.

  git clone --branch v20.11 https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk.git dpdk_v20
  

• Compile code using below command

  meson build
  cd build
  ninja
  ninja install
  pkg-config --cflags libdpdk
  pkg-config --libs libdpdk
  

DPDK

Each tab explain about perticular module/library within DPDK along with example.

• EAL
• Threading Module
• Memory Pool
• Packet Pool