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The easiest way to get up and running with the DPDK on FreeBSD is to
-install it from the ports collection. Details of getting and using the ports
-collection are documented in the
-`FreeBSD Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>`_.
+install it using the FreeBSD `pkg` utility or from the ports collection.
+Details of installing applications from packages or the ports collection are documented in the
+`FreeBSD Handbook <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html>`_,
+chapter `Installing Applications: Packages and Ports <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports.html>`_.
-Installing the DPDK FreeBSD Port
---------------------------------
+.. note::
-On a system with the ports collection installed in ``/usr/ports``, the DPDK
-can be installed using the commands:
+ Please ensure that the latest patches are applied to third party libraries
+ and software to avoid any known vulnerabilities.
-.. code-block:: console
- cd /usr/ports/net/dpdk
+Installing the DPDK Package for FreeBSD
+---------------------------------------
- make install
+DPDK can be installed on FreeBSD using the command::
+
+ pkg install dpdk
-After the installation of the DPDK port, instructions will be printed on
+After the installation of the DPDK package, instructions will be printed on
how to install the kernel modules required to use the DPDK. A more
complete version of these instructions can be found in the sections
:ref:`loading_contigmem` and :ref:`loading_nic_uio`. Normally, lines like
those below would be added to the file ``/boot/loader.conf``.
-.. code-block:: console
+.. code-block:: shell
# Reserve 2 x 1G blocks of contiguous memory using contigmem driver:
hw.contigmem.num_buffers=2
hw.nic_uio.bdfs="2:0:0,2:0:1"
nic_uio_load="YES"
-.. note::
- Please ensure that the latest patches are applied to third party libraries
- and software to avoid any known vulnerabilities.
+Installing the DPDK FreeBSD Port
+--------------------------------
+
+If so desired, the user can install DPDK using the ports collection rather than from
+a pre-compiled binary package.
+On a system with the ports collection installed in ``/usr/ports``, the DPDK
+can be installed using the commands::
+
+ cd /usr/ports/net/dpdk
+
+ make install
Compiling and Running the Example Applications
----------------------------------------------
When the DPDK has been installed from the ports collection it installs
-its example applications in ``/usr/local/share/dpdk/examples`` - also accessible via
-symlink as ``/usr/local/share/examples/dpdk``. These examples can be compiled and
-run as described in :ref:`compiling_sample_apps`. In this case, the required
-environmental variables should be set as below:
+its example applications in ``/usr/local/share/dpdk/examples``.
+These examples can be compiled and run as described in :ref:`compiling_sample_apps`.
-* ``RTE_SDK=/usr/local/share/dpdk``
+.. note::
-* ``RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-freebsd-clang``
+ DPDK example applications must be complied using `gmake` rather than
+ BSD `make`. To detect the installed DPDK libraries, `pkg-config` should
+ also be installed on the system.
.. note::
the instructions given in the next chapter, :ref:`building_from_source`
An example application can therefore be copied to a user's home directory and
-compiled and run as below:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
- export RTE_SDK=/usr/local/share/dpdk
-
- export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-freebsd-clang
+compiled and run as below, where we have 2 memory blocks of size 1G reserved
+via the contigmem module, and 4 NIC ports bound to the nic_uio module::
cp -r /usr/local/share/dpdk/examples/helloworld .
cd helloworld/
gmake
- CC main.o
- LD helloworld
- INSTALL-APP helloworld
- INSTALL-MAP helloworld.map
+ cc -O3 -I/usr/local/include -include rte_config.h -march=corei7 -D__BSD_VISIBLE main.c -o build/helloworld-shared -L/usr/local/lib -lrte_bpf -lrte_flow_classify -lrte_pipeline -lrte_table -lrte_port -lrte_fib -lrte_ipsec -lrte_stack -lrte_security -lrte_sched -lrte_reorder -lrte_rib -lrte_rcu -lrte_rawdev -lrte_pdump -lrte_member -lrte_lpm -lrte_latencystats -lrte_jobstats -lrte_ip_frag -lrte_gso -lrte_gro -lrte_eventdev -lrte_efd -lrte_distributor -lrte_cryptodev -lrte_compressdev -lrte_cfgfile -lrte_bitratestats -lrte_bbdev -lrte_acl -lrte_timer -lrte_hash -lrte_metrics -lrte_cmdline -lrte_pci -lrte_ethdev -lrte_meter -lrte_net -lrte_mbuf -lrte_mempool -lrte_ring -lrte_eal -lrte_kvargs
+ ln -sf helloworld-shared build/helloworld
- sudo ./build//helloworld -l 0-3
+ sudo ./build/helloworld -l 0-3
EAL: Sysctl reports 8 cpus
EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
EAL: 0000:00:19.0 not managed by UIO driver, skipping
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
- EAL: 0000:01:00.0 not managed by UIO driver, skipping
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
- EAL: 0000:01:00.1 not managed by UIO driver, skipping
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
- EAL: 0000:01:00.2 not managed by UIO driver, skipping
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
- EAL: 0000:01:00.3 not managed by UIO driver, skipping
hello from core 1
hello from core 2
hello from core 3