[dpdk-dev] non-x86 ? Re: Would DPDK run on AMD processors

[Irfan Zia]

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 пишет:
> > 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
>
>