Data Accelerator Offload(DAO)

Data Accelerator Offload(DAO) provides library interfaces which enable developers to implement their own application on top of Marvell's OCTEON based data processing units. It also comes with applications aimed at supporting accelerated switching and packet processing.

Repository	Ubuntu-22.04	Status
marvell-dao
marvell-dpdk
marvell-ovs
marvell-vpp
marvell-oct-ep-target
marvell-nginx
marvell-firmware-cpt
marvell-firmware-ml
marvell-packages

Programmers Guide

https://marvellembeddedprocessors.github.io/dao/guides/

API Reference Guide

https://marvellembeddedprocessors.github.io/dao/api/

Release Management

https://marvellembeddedprocessors.github.io/dao/guides/contributing/release.html

Quick start Guide

Update ubuntu repository to download released dao packages

curl -fsSL https://www.marvell.com/public/repo/octeon/dao/cn10k/ubuntu/v2204/release/dao.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/dao.gpg
curl -SsL -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dao.list https://www.marvell.com/public/repo/octeon/dao/cn10k/ubuntu/v2204/release/dao.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dao.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/dao.gpg
apt-get update

Installing DAO package

apt-get install dao-cn10k

Installation Demo

Running First DAO application

Running VPP DAO application

Running NGINX DAO application

DAO Components Status

Domain	Component/Solutions	Status	Documentation
DPDK	Ethernet driver		Link
	Crypto driver (Symmetric/Asymmetric)		Link
	rte_security - Inline (IPsec/MACsec)		Link
	rte_security - lookaside protocol (IPsec/TLS record)		Link
	Eventdev driver		Link
	Mempool driver		Link
	DMA driver		Link
	GPIO driver		Link
	Baseband driver		Link
	PCIe communication driver		Link
	ML device driver		Link
	Graph and Node library		Link
VPP	VPP L2-L4 Accelerated Stack with IPSec		Link
	VPP TCP/UDP Accelerated Socket Library		Link
	VPP TLS Transport plugin		Link
	VPP QUIC Stack		Link
	SoNiC with VPP
	Snort with VPP
OVS	HW accelerated OVS Offload		Link
VIRTIO Emulation	VirtIO-Net		Link 1 Link 2
	VirtIO-Crypto
	VirtIO-Block
OpenSSL	SSL crypto Acceleration via Engine
	TLS MIM Application
	NGINX Proxy/TLS Proxy		Link 1 Link 2
	NGINX Load Balancer		Link
AI/ML	AI/ML Toolkit
	Inferencing application - Resnet50 Image classification
	Inferencing application - DDoS detection
Cloud Solutions	Cilium CNI
	Calico
Libraries	Netlink Helper library		Link
	IPsec		Link
	SmartNIC App		Link
	Connection Tracking Library
	Flow library		Link
	Key Extraction Library
	Packet Transformation
	TLS offload
	Protocol Parser Library
	SNORT Integration
	NAT
	Compression App