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DPDK Installation, Configuration, and Usage

(Version 23.11)

Installation

Requirements

See DPDK Requirement for information.

pip3 install --user meson ninja pyelftools
export PATH="~/.local/bin:$PATH"

In some cases it is possible that meson does not find ninja when building the system. A temporary solution is to install ninja with apt: sudo apt install ninja-build.

sudo apt install python3-pyelftools
sudo apt install libnuma-dev

Compiling and Installing DPDK System-wide

Source: Compiling the DPDK Target from Source

curl -LO https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-23.11.tar.xz && \
echo "896c09f5b45b452bd77287994650b916 dpdk-23.11.tar.xz" | md5sum -c && \
tar xJf dpdk-23.11.tar.xz && cd dpdk-23.11 && \
meson setup build && cd build && ninja && meson install && ldconfig

Configure Build

DPDK uses meson to configure its build.

meson <options> <build directory>

E.g., to set the instal directory to ~/dpdk-23.11-inst:

meson --prefix ~/dpdk-23.11-inst build

In the build directory, meson can further be used to adjust the build configurations:

meson configure -D<option>=<value>

Checkout meson configure to list the configuration options.

Linux Drivers

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.html https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/tools/devbind.html

Network interfaces have to be bound to the correct driver. E.g., the standard uio_pci_generic module included in the Linux kernel can be used.

sudo modprobe uio_pci_generic

As an alternative to the uio_pci_generic, there is the igb_uio module which can be found in the repository dpdk-kmods. It can be loaded as shown below:

sudo modprobe uio
sudo insmod igb_uio.ko

Install igb_uio.ko from dpdk-kmods and insert the module:

git clone https://dpdk.org/git/dpdk-kmods
cd dpdk-kmods/linux/igb_uio/
make
sudo modprobe uio
sudo insmod igb_uio.ko

The status of the interfaces can be checked as follows:

dpdk-devbind.py -s

To bind an interface to the uio_pci_generic:

dpdk-devbind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:00:08.0

Hugepages

TODO

echo '4096' | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

Mellanox

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-21.11/nics/mlx5.html?highlight=mlnxofedinstall (especially: Quick Start Guide on OFED/EN)

https://usermanual.wiki/m/6532977b8b83a8ab795b107ae033dd51cc1497de5afb0df677423e0aa8079459.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A27%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C69%2C707%2C0%5D

For Mellanox support, install OFED on the target host:

wget 'https://content.mellanox.com/ofed/MLNX_OFED-5.4-1.0.3.0/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0-debian10.8-x86_64.iso' -O ./MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0-debian10.8-x86_64.iso
echo "01c8314eec0369830d7c2acea159726d43f8a480ac18f28b701de3d44b4753d0 MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0-debian10.8-x86_64.iso" | sha256sum -c MLNX_OFED_LINUX*
sudo mkdir /mnt/iso
sudo mount -o loop ./MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-1.0.3.0-debian10.8-x86_64.iso /mnt/iso/
cd /mnt/iso/
sudo apt install libpython3.7
sudo ./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk
/etc/init.d/openibd status

Potentially following dependencies also have to be installed:

sudo apt install rdma-core

Troubleshooting

Installation: Python Version

The meson installation scripts always choose the system's Python version and not the Python version globally configured, e.g., with pyenv. If the another version is preferred, adjust the build script buildtools/meson.build by changing the line

python3 = import('python').find_installation(required: false)

to

python3 = import('python').find_installation('python3', required: false)