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+Seastar and DPDK
+================
+
+Seastar uses the Data Plane Development Kit to drive NIC hardware directly.  This
+provides an enormous performance boost.
+
+To enable DPDK, specify `-DSeastar_DPDK=ON` to `./cooking.sh`, and `--dpdk-pmd` as a
+run-time parameter.  This will use the DPDK package provided as a git submodule with the
+seastar sources.
+
+To use your own self-compiled DPDK package, follow this procedure:
+
+1. Setup host to compile DPDK:
+   - Ubuntu 
+     `sudo apt-get install -y build-essential linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)` 
+2. Prepare a DPDK SDK:
+   - Download the latest DPDK release: `wget http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-2.0.0.tar.gz`
+   - Untar it.
+   - Edit config/common_linuxapp: set CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_REFCNT_ATOMIC and CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_KNI to 'n'.
+   - Start the tools/setup.sh script as root.
+   - Compile a linuxapp target (option 9).
+   - Install IGB_UIO module (option 12).
+   - Bind some physical port to IGB_UIO (option 18).
+   - Configure hugepage mappings (option 15/16).
+3. Modify the CMake cache (`CMakeCache.txt`) to inform CMake of the location of the installed DPDK SDK.