DPDK for Ubuntu / Debian, let's do it?

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 22 July 2015 at 07:02, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 01:06:12AM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>  Any plans to package Intel DPDK for Ubuntu?
>>
>>  Also, what about integrating Open vSwitch with DPDK (after package ready)?
>
> We're looking into this. One of us will probably file an ITP. Some
> packaging work in progress (not ready yet) for dpdk:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~smb/+archive/ubuntu/dpdk
>
> and for openvswitch:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~james-page/+archive/ubuntu/ovs-dpdk

Hello Robie!

This is AWESOME! Thank you so much for sharing this...

Let me ask you guys something, about the DPDK package.

I'm not seeing the kernel modules, are you guys planning to add a DKMS
package for it? We'll need this OVS-DPDK, am I right? Also, my DPDK
app needs this anyway...

Also, I'm planning to enable support for Xen/dom0 and everything else
that Debian / Ubuntu can support.

My new DPDK "build-dep" list on Trusty looks like this:

"make coreutils gcc binutils linux-generic-lts-vivid
linux-headers-generic-lts-vivid libc6-dev-i386 libpcap0.8-dev fakeroot
python-sphinx libxen-dev doxygen"

And for CPU flags, I also want to use everything that my server can
provides, not only the bare minimum (SSE3). Can we add some
instructions about how to change this at the "debian/README.debian"?

BTW, it is compiling just fine under Debian Jessie too!     :-)

Cheers!
Thiago