Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)

This book brings together the insights and practical experience of some of the most experienced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) technical experts, detailing the trend of DPDK, data packet processing, hardware acceleration, packet processing and virtualization, as well as the practical application of DPDK in the fields of SDN, NFV, and network storage. The book also devotes many chunks to exploring various core software algorithms, the advanced optimization methods adopted in DPDK, detailed practical experience, and the guides on how to use DPDK.

Heqing Zhu was born in China. He has worked with Intel® for 15 years. His roles include software developer, engineering leadership, product management, solution architect in telecom and cloud networking, and open-source software development. Prior to Intel®, he worked for Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Huawei. He currently lives in Chandler, Arizona, in the United States. Heqing graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) with a master's degree in Information and Communication System.

Contents Preface......................................................................................................................vii Editor........................................................................................................................xv Contributors............................................................................................................xvii SECTION 1 DPDK Foundation Chapter 1 Introduction...........................................................................................3 Heqing Zhu and Cunming Liang Chapter 2 Cache and Memory............................................................................. 31 Chen Jing and Heqing Zhu Chapter 3 Core-Based Parallelism....................................................................... 51 Qun Wan, Heqing Zhu, and Zhihong Wang Chapter 4 Synchronization...................................................................................65 Frank Liu and Heqing Zhu Chapter 5 Forwarding..........................................................................................85 Yipeng Wang, Jasvinder Singh, Zhe Tao, Liang Ma, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 6 PCIe/NIC........................................................................................... 115 Cunming Liang, Hunt David, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 7 PMD.................................................................................................. 133 Helin Zhang and Heqing Zhu Chapter 8 NIC-Based Parallellism..................................................................... 157 Jingjing Wu, Xiaolong Ye, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 9 NIC Offload....................................................................................... 183 Wenzhuo Lu and Heqing Zhu Chapter 10 Packet Security.................................................................................. 199 Fan Zhang (Roy) and Heqing Zhu SECTION 2 I/O Virtualization Chapter 11 Hardware Virtualization................................................................... 219 Qian Xu and Rashmin Patel Chapter 12 Virtio.................................................................................................229 Tiwei Bie, Changchun Ouyang, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 13 Vhost-User......................................................................................... 251 Tiwei Bie and Heqing Zhu SECTION 3 DPDK Applications Chapter 14 DPDK for NFV.................................................................................265 Xuekun Hu, Waterman Cao, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 15 Virtual Switch...................................................................................277 Ciara Loftus, Xuekun Hu, and Heqing Zhu Chapter 16 Storage Acceleration......................................................................... 291 Ziye Yang and Heqing Zhu Index.......................................................................................................................305