Software/Driver Installation; Pre-Requisites; Installation - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter XXIV. DPDK Driver

Software/Driver Installation

2.1.

Pre-requisites

flex, bison, byacc, patch, patchutils, autoconf, automake and rpm-build packages must be present
in the machine (required for libpcap installation).
2.2.

Installation

Please ensure that any existing version of DPDK driver is uninstalled before
Important
proceeding.
i. Change your current working directory to Chelsio Unified Wire package directory:
[root@host~]# cd ChelsioUwire-x.x.x.x
Install DPDK source, testpmd, tools and Pktgen:
ii.
[root@host~]# make dpdk_install
The above command will
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install the driver with the following build configuration:
arch: x86_64/ppc_64
machine: native/power8
execenv: linuxapp
toolchain: gcc
•
create a target environment directory "x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/ppc_64-
power8-linuxapp-gcc" in the driver package directory.
The pktgen application has been modified to disable packet classification, to reflect
Note
correct Rx rate as packet classification is an expensive operation.
For more installation options, please run
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Chelsio Unified Wire for Linux
make help or install.py -h
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