[dpdk-dev] Minimum Supported x86 microarchitecture

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:09:39PM +0000, Kavanagh, Mark B wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The recent reimplementation of rte_memcpy in DPDK v2.0.0 seems to have a placed an implicit floor on the microarchitecture/Instruction set supported by DPDK.
> 
> For example, I can't compile head of OVS against DPDK 2.0 with gcc without passing the 'msse3' flag; this points to an implicit minimum  supported CPU of 'core2'. More discussion on same is available here: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-April/053523.html
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny this, and is/should it be documented?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark

SSE3 is the minimum necessary. However, I believe all x86_64 cpus have at least
SSE3 support, so this should only be a problem with 32-bit builds. Is this the
case for you?

/Bruce