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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, haiyue.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: introduce openwrt how-to guide
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:59:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191129085928.21b98f83@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191129081911.92988-1-xiaolong.ye@intel.com>

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:19:11 +0800
Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> wrote:

> This doc describes how to enable DPDK on openwrt in both virtual and
> physical x86 environment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/howto/index.rst   |   1 +
>  doc/guides/howto/openwrt.rst | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 181 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/howto/openwrt.rst
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/howto/index.rst b/doc/guides/howto/index.rst
> index a4c131652..5a97ea508 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/howto/index.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/howto/index.rst
> @@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ HowTo Guides
>      packet_capture_framework
>      telemetry
>      debug_troubleshoot
> +    openwrt
> diff --git a/doc/guides/howto/openwrt.rst b/doc/guides/howto/openwrt.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..62be3a031
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/howto/openwrt.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
> +..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> +    Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation.
> +
> +Enable DPDK on openwrt
> +======================
> +
> +This document describes how to enable Data Plane Development Kit(DPDK) on
> +Openwrt in both virtual and physical x86 environment.
> +
> +Introduction
> +------------
> +
> +The OpenWrt project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices.
> +Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully
> +writable filesystem with package management. This frees user from the
> +application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows user
> +to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For
> +developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build and application without having to
> +build a complete firmware around it, for users this means the ability for full
> +customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
> +
> +Pre-requisites
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +You need gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python3.5+, perl, make, find, grep, diff,
> +unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc headers installed.
> +
> +Build OpenWrt
> +-------------
> +
> +You can obtain OpenWrt image through https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases. To
> +fully customize your own OpenWrt, it is highly recommended to build it through
> +the source code, you can clone the OpenWrt source code by:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
> +
> +OpenWrt configuration
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +* Select ``x86`` in ``Target System``
> +* Select ``x86_64`` in ``Subtarget``
> +* Select ``Build the OpenWrt SDK`` for cross-compilation environment
> +* Select ``Use glibc`` in ``Advanced configuration options (for developers)``
> +			   -> ``ToolChain Options``
> +			   -> ``C Library implementation``
> +
> +Kernel configuration
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Below configurations need to be enabled:
> +
> +* CONFIG_UIO=y
> +* CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
> +* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y
> +* CONFIG_PAGE_MONITOR=y
> +
> +Build steps
> +~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +1. Run ``./scripts/feeds update -a`` to obtain all the latest package definitions
> +defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default
> +
> +2. Run ``./scripts/feeds install -a`` to install symlinks for all obtained
> +packages into package/feeds/
> +
> +3. Run ``make menuconfig`` to select preferred configuration mentioned above for
> +the toolchain, target system & firmware packages.
> +
> +3. Run ``make kernel_menuconfig`` to select preferred kernel configurations.
> +
> +4. Run ``make`` to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build
> +the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the Linux kernel & all
> +chosen applications for your target system.
> +
> +After build is done, you can find the images and sdk in ``<OpenWrt Root>/bin/targets/x86/64-glibc/``.
> +
> +DPDK Cross Compilation for OpenWrt
> +----------------------------------
> +
> +Pre-requisites
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +NUMA is required to run dpdk in x86.
> +
> +.. note::
> +
> +   For compiling the NUMA lib, run libtool --version to ensure the libtool version >= 2.2,
> +   otherwise the compilation will fail with errors.
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	git clone https://github.com/numactl/numactl.git
> +	cd numactl
> +	git checkout v2.0.13 -b v2.0.13
> +	./autogen.sh
> +	autoconf -i
> +	export PATH=<OpenWrt sdk>/glibc/openwrt-sdk-x86-64_gcc-8.3.0_glibc.Linux-x86_64/staging_dir/toolchain-x86_64_gcc-8.3.0_glibc/bin/:$PATH
> +	./configure CC=x86_64-openwrt-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=<OpenWrt SDK toolchain dir>
> +	make install
> +
> +The numa header files and lib file is generated in the include and lib folder respectively under <OpenWrt SDK toolchain dir>.
> +
> +Build DPDK
> +~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	export STAGING_DIR=<OpenWrt sdk>/glibc/openwrt-sdk-x86-64_gcc-8.3.0_glibc.Linux-x86_64/staging_dir
> +	export RTE_SDK=`pwd`
> +	export RTE_KERNELDIR=<OpenWrt Root>/build_dir/target-x86_64_glibc/linux-x86_64/linux-4.19.81/
> +	make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> +	make -j 100 CROSS=x86_64-openwrt-linux-gnu-
> +
> +Running DPDK application on OpenWrt
> +-----------------------------------
> +
> +Virtual machine
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +* Extract boot image
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	gzip -d openwrt-x86-64-combined-ext4.img.gz
> +
> +* Launch Qemu
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	qemu-system-x86_64 \
> +	        -cpu host \
> +	        -smp 8 \
> +	        -enable-kvm \
> +	        -M q35 \
> +	        -m 2048M \
> +	        -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/tmp/hugepages,share=on \
> +	        -drive file=<Your OpenWrt images folder>/openwrt-x86-64-combined-ext4.img,id=d0,if=none,bus=0,unit=0 \
> +	        -device ide-hd,drive=d0,bus=ide.0 \
> +	        -net nic,vlan=0 \
> +	        -net nic,vlan=1 \
> +	        -net user,vlan=1 \
> +	        -display none \
> +
> +
> +Physical machine
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Installation
> +
> +If you are using Windows PC, you can use some free and opensource raw disk image writer program such as
> +``Win32 Disk Imager`` and ``Etcher`` to write OpenWrt image (openwrt-x86-64-combined-ext4.img) to a USB
> +flash driver or USB SDcard with SDcard or a Sata hard drivre or SSD from your PC.
> +
> +If you are using Linux, you can use old dd tool to write OpenWrt image to the drive you want to write the
> +image on.
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> +	dd if=openwrt-18.06.1-x86-64-combined-squashfs.img of=/dev/sdX
> +
> +Where sdX is name of the drive. (You can find it though ``fdisk -l``)
> +
> +Running DPDK
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +* Setup dpdk environment
> +
> +  * Scp built numa libraries (including soft link) to /usr/lib64
> +  * Setup hugepages
> +  * insmod igb_uio.ko (scp the built igb_uio.ko first)
> +  * Bind the NIC to igb_uio.ko
> +
> +* Launch testpmd
> +
> +  * scp built testpmd to qemu
> +  * ./testpmd -c 0xf -- -i
> +
> + More detailed info about how to run a DPDK application refer to ``Running DPDK Applications`` section of :ref:`the DPDK documentation <linux_gsg>`.

It is good to have more documentation and examples.
My one concern is that a lot of this overlaps existing documents and is likely
to get out of date.  Could you use links instead to describe how
to install OpenWrt and how to run testpmd.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-29 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-29  8:19 Xiaolong Ye
2019-11-29 10:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-11-29 15:03   ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-11-29 16:59 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-12-01 11:30   ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-02  6:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-02  7:31   ` Jerin Jacob
2019-12-02  8:09     ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-12  2:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-16  3:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-19  6:05   ` Zhang, Xiao
2020-01-17 13:46   ` Mcnamara, John
2020-01-18  1:52     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-01-18  5:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Xiaolong Ye
2020-01-22 12:34   ` Mcnamara, John
2020-02-16 11:04   ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-16 17:29     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-02-16 18:02       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-17  1:18         ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-02-17  3:12           ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2020-02-17  6:21             ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-02-17  2:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Xiaolong Ye
2020-02-17 15:08   ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-17 15:44     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-02-17 15:49       ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-18  8:26         ` Mcnamara, John
2020-02-18  9:12           ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-18  9:32             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18  9:49               ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-02-18 10:08                 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-21 21:08   ` Thomas Monjalon

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