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.

Contents

Preface......................................................................................................................vii

Editor........................................................................................................................xv

Contributors............................................................................................................xvii

SECTION 1 DPDK Foundation

Chapter 1 Introduction...........................................................................................3

Heqing Zhu and Cunming Liang

Chapter 2 Cache and Memory............................................................................. 31

Chen Jing and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 3 Core-Based Parallelism....................................................................... 51

Qun Wan, Heqing Zhu, and Zhihong Wang

Chapter 4 Synchronization...................................................................................65

Frank Liu and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 5 Forwarding..........................................................................................85

Yipeng Wang, Jasvinder Singh, Zhe Tao, Liang Ma, and

Heqing Zhu

Chapter 6 PCIe/NIC........................................................................................... 115

Cunming Liang, Hunt David, and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 7 PMD.................................................................................................. 133

Helin Zhang and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 8 NIC-Based Parallellism..................................................................... 157

Jingjing Wu, Xiaolong Ye, and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 9 NIC Offload....................................................................................... 183

Wenzhuo Lu and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 10 Packet Security.................................................................................. 199

Fan Zhang (Roy) and Heqing Zhu

SECTION 2 I/O Virtualization

Chapter 11 Hardware Virtualization................................................................... 219

Qian Xu and Rashmin Patel

Chapter 12 Virtio.................................................................................................229

Tiwei Bie, Changchun Ouyang, and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 13 Vhost-User......................................................................................... 251

Tiwei Bie and Heqing Zhu

SECTION 3 DPDK Applications

Chapter 14 DPDK for NFV.................................................................................265

Xuekun Hu, Waterman Cao, and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 15 Virtual Switch...................................................................................277

Ciara Loftus, Xuekun Hu, and Heqing Zhu

Chapter 16 Storage Acceleration......................................................................... 291

Ziye Yang and Heqing Zhu

Index.......................................................................................................................305