Chapter 47. Getting started with DPDK
The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) provides libraries and network drivers to accelerate package processing in user space.
Administrators use DPDK, for example, in virtual machines to use Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) to reduce latencies and increase I/O throughput.
Red Hat does not support experimental DPDK APIs.
47.1. Installing the dpdk package
This section describes how to install the dpdk
package.
Prerequisites
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux is installed.
- A valid subscription is assigned to the host.
Procedure
Use the
yum
utility to install thedpdk
package:# yum install dpdk