hi Derek, we completed a DPDK port onto the Tilera's TILE-GX architecture 'Natively' for a customer. Specifically it was on the Gx-36 (36 Tiles) PCIe card. Their team is able to directly take their Host DPDK apps (NFV modules and tunnels generators) and reuse them on the TileNcore-36 PCIe card 'as-is', Allowing them to build their system with much economical and lower power host CPU (Atom 330).
we are currently completing similar port for Cavium's OCTEON -II. And Yergen is right, we had to resolve many intriguing technical issues ;-) -irfan VP Eng Paxym Inc. www.paxym.com On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov at sts.kz> wrote: > Intel DPDK is intentionally being developed to bring support of packet > processing > to Intel processors. In order to provide high performance in packet > processing, > developing Intel DPDK requires rather good optimization, like extensive > use of > SSE intrinsics etc. Hence it demands x86 arch. > > Since Intel DPDK is opensource, there is no license restriction to run > it on any arch, > but I guess one will face rather intriguing technical issues doing that :) > > 03.07.2014 19:35, Derek Wasely ?????: > > how about running DPDK on other processors ? Any licensing restriction > on using it on non-x86 arch ? Does it work automatically on say PPC or > OCTEON ? > > -- > Sincerely, > > Yerden Zhumabekov > STS, ACI > Astana, KZ > >
