Compiling DPDK from source for the BlueField-2 DPU with the correct meson platform setting, and reconfiguring pkg-config and ld.so.conf.d so system-wide builds actually link against it instead of the vendor-supplied version.
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Continuing the OvS offload investigation with pktgen instead of iperf3 — measuring no-offload, TC flower, and DPDK offload throughput on the BlueField-2 DPU, including RSS scaling across multiple RX queues.
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Comparing OvS hardware-offload strategies on the BlueField-2 DPU — no offload, TC flower-based offload, and DPDK datapath offload — with iperf3 throughput measurements for each.
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Benchmarking DPDK-based packet generation and forwarding performance on the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, comparing single- and multi-core throughput against the earlier baseline iperf3 results.
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Switching an NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU from Separated Host to Embedded Function (SmartNIC) mode, enabling RDMA, and compiling DPDK 20.11.1 from source with Meson and Ninja.
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