Dear Thomas,

Dear Thomas,

That should be doable today, as long as VPP version supports version of dpdk you want to link against.

From the spec file you can invoke autotools project directly, and pass --enable-dpdk-shared to ./configure

./configure --enable-dpdk-shared --prefix=/wherever/rpm/spec/file/wants/files/to/show/up

make

make install

I don't expect any perf difference, but the open question is how the distro dpdk libs deal with different vector optimisations....

I assume you are speaking of AVX?

It looks like upstream DPDK (default settings) and the fedora RPM both have AVX2 enabled but not AVX512.
I think that is consistent of what we do in VPP when we compile dpdk.

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Damjan

On 4 Jun 2018, at 13:51, Thomas F Herbert <therbert@...> wrote:

OVS as of 9.x now uses shared libraries with dpdk packaged separately for downstream

I want to raise the issue of shared vs. static libraries for dpdk in vpp.

Would there be any performance penalty to going with shared?

--Tom

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Thomas F Herbert
NFV and Fast Data Planes
Networking Group Office of the CTO
Red Hat