Derek, If the customer allows it ; more details could become available. Meanwhile it will be their prerogative to contribute. This is briefly explained at: http://paxym.com/Paxym_Updates_Multicore_SW.html#DPDK-Native-Tilera-Port
thanks! -irfan On Mon, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Derek Wasely <derek.wasely at yahoo.com> wrote: can u explain more? May I test it...what card is needed ? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Irfan Zia <irfanzia at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 Yerden 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 >> >> >
