This book brings together the insights and practical experience of some of the most experienced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) technical experts, detailing the trend of DPDK, data packet processing, hardware acceleration, packet processing and virtualization, as well as the practical application of DPDK in the fields of SDN, NFV, and network storage. The book also devotes many chunks to exploring various core software algorithms, the advanced optimization methods adopted in DPDK, detailed practical experience, and the guides on how to use DPDK.

Table of Contents

Section 1 DPDK Foundation

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Cache and Memory

Chapter 3 Core-Based Parallelism

Chapter 4 Synchronization

Chapter 5 Forwarding

Chapter 6 PCle/NIC

Chapter 7 PMD

Chapter 8 NIC-Based Parallellism

Chapter 9 NIC Offload

Chapter 10 Packet Security

Section 2 1/0 Virtualization

Chapter 11 Hardware Virtualization

Chapter 12 Virtio

Chapter 13 Vhost-User

Section 3 DPDK Applications

Chapter 14 DPDK for NFV

Chapter 15 Virtual Switch

Chapter 16 Storage Acceleration

About the Author

Heqing Zhu was born in China. He has worked with Intel® for 15 years. His roles include software developer, engineering leadership, product management,

solution architect in telecom and cloud networking, and open-source software development. Prior to Intel®, he worked for Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Huawei. He currently lives in Chandler, Arizona, in the United States. Heqing graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) with a master’s degree in Information and Communication System.