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FD.io VPP
v17.04.2-2-ga8f93f8
Vector Packet Processing
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FD.io VPP
v17.04.2-2-ga8f93f8
Vector Packet Processing
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The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version of Cisco's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology: a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs.
The benefits of this implementation of VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, and rich feature set.
For more information on VPP and its features please visit the FD.io website and What is VPP? pages.
Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under Release Notes.
| Directory name | Description |
|---|---|
| build-data | Build metadata |
| build-root | Build output directory |
| doxygen | Documentation generator configuration |
| dpdk | DPDK patches and build infrastructure |
| src | VPP source code |
| src/plugins | VPP bundled plugins directory |
| src/svm | Shared virtual memory allocation library |
| src/tests | Unit tests |
| src/vat | VPP API test program |
| src/vlib | VPP application library |
| src/vlibapi | VPP API library |
| src/vlibmemory | VPP Memory management |
| src/vlibsocket | VPP Socket I/O |
| src/vnet | VPP networking |
| src/vpp | VPP application |
| src/vpp-api | VPP application API bindings |
| src/vppinfra | VPP core library |
| test | Unit tests |
| src/vpp/api | Not-yet-relocated API bindings |
In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should consult the VPP wiki for more complete documentation.
In particular, readers are recommended to take a look at Pulling, Building, Running, Hacking, Pushing which provides extensive step-by-step coverage of the topic.
For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with sudo access from the project base directory:
./build-root/vagrant/build.sh
If you want a more fine-grained approach because you intend to do some development work, the Makefile in the root directory of the source tree provides several convenience shortcuts as make targets that may be of interest. To see the available targets run:
make
The directory build-root/vagrant contains a VagrantFile and supporting scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine. This VM can then be used to test concepts with VPP or as a development platform to extend VPP. Some obvious caveats apply when using a VM for VPP since its performance will never match that of bare metal; if your work is timing or performance sensitive, consider using bare metal in addition or instead of the VM.
For this to work you will need a working installation of Vagrant. Instructions for this can be found on the Setting up Vagrant wiki page.
Several modules provide documentation, see User Documentation for more information.
Visit the VPP wiki for details on more advanced building strategies and development notes.
There is PyDoc generated documentation available for the VPP test framework. See Test Framework Documentation for details.
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