Hello Folks,

I've been writing a small application on Ubuntu 20.04 that uses DPDK.  I started with some of the simpler examples such as l2fwd and packet_ordering and added some other function I wanted to experiment with.  I'm getting good packet throughput and the library is working well.  Overall, DPDK is feature rich, easy to compile, and working as advertised.

As next steps, I would like to move my application to run on top of a very small Linux image that can be loaded off of a very small flash or even over the network.

OpenWRT checks all the boxes for being small, having a lot of network utilities, and supporting DPDK.

Looking at the documents, the OpenWRT docs is pretty small and I don't see mmay uch discussions about it on the archives of this mailing list.

I'm asking if people could provide some feedback on writing a DPDK app for use on OpenWRT.

Is the advertised integration working well?

How easy is it to cross compile an app to run on OpenWRT (x86 in m y case)?

I would welcome any comment on this topic