diff --git a/autobuild.sh b/autobuild.sh
index 5d700e7c70..5705a3a12e 100755
--- a/autobuild.sh
+++ b/autobuild.sh
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ cd $rootdir
 # Print some test system info out for the log
 date -u
 git describe --tags
-./configure $config_params
-echo "** START ** Info for Hostname: $HOSTNAME"
-uname -a
-$MAKE cc_version
-$MAKE cxx_version
-echo "** END ** Info for Hostname: $HOSTNAME"
 
 function ocf_precompile() {
 	# We compile OCF sources ourselves
@@ -48,6 +42,76 @@ function ocf_precompile() {
 	./configure $config_params
 }
 
+function build_native_dpdk() {
+	local external_dpdk_dir
+	local external_dpdk_base_dir
+
+	external_dpdk_dir="$SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK"
+	external_dpdk_base_dir="$(dirname $external_dpdk_dir)"
+
+	if [[ ! -d "$external_dpdk_base_dir" ]]; then
+		sudo mkdir -p "$external_dpdk_base_dir"
+		sudo chown -R $(whoami) "$external_dpdk_base_dir"/..
+	fi
+	orgdir=$PWD
+
+	rm -rf "$external_dpdk_base_dir"
+	git clone --branch $SPDK_TEST_NATIVE_DPDK --depth 1 http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk "$external_dpdk_base_dir"
+	dpdk_cflags="-fPIC -g -Werror -fcommon"
+	dpdk_ldflags=""
+
+	# the drivers we use
+	DPDK_DRIVERS=("bus" "bus/pci" "bus/vdev" "mempool/ring")
+	# all possible DPDK drivers
+	DPDK_ALL_DRIVERS=($(find "$external_dpdk_base_dir/drivers" -mindepth 1 -type d | sed -n "s#^$external_dpdk_base_dir/drivers/##p"))
+
+	if [[ "$SPDK_TEST_CRYPTO" -eq 1 ]]; then
+		git clone --branch v0.54 --depth 1 https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb.git "$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
+		cd "$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
+		$MAKE $MAKEFLAGS all SHARED=n EXTRA_CFLAGS=-fPIC
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto/aesni_mb")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto/qat")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("compress/qat")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("common/qat")
+		dpdk_cflags+=" -I$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
+		dpdk_ldflags+=" -L$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
+	fi
+
+	if [[ "$SPDK_TEST_REDUCE" -eq 1 ]]; then
+		git clone --branch v2.29.0 --depth 1 https://github.com/intel/isa-l.git "$external_dpdk_base_dir/isa-l"
+		cd "$external_dpdk_base_dir/isa-l"
+		./autogen.sh
+		./configure CFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" --enable-shared=no
+		ln -s $PWD/include $PWD/isa-l
+		$MAKE $MAKEFLAGS all
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("compress")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("compress/isal")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("compress/qat")
+		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("common/qat")
+		dpdk_cflags+=" -I$external_dpdk_base_dir/isa-l"
+		dpdk_ldflags+=" -L$external_dpdk_base_dir/isa-l/.libs"
+	fi
+
+	# Use difference between DPDK_ALL_DRIVERS and DPDK_DRIVERS as a set of DPDK drivers we don't want or
+	# don't need to build.
+	DPDK_DISABLED_DRIVERS=($(sort <(printf "%s\n" "${DPDK_DRIVERS[@]}") <(printf "%s\n" "${DPDK_ALL_DRIVERS[@]}") | uniq -u))
+
+	cd $external_dpdk_base_dir
+	if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Linux" ]; then
+		dpdk_cflags+=" -Wno-stringop-overflow"
+	fi
+
+	meson build-tmp --prefix="$external_dpdk_dir" --libdir lib \
+		-Denable_docs=false -Denable_kmods=false -Dtests=false \
+		-Dc_args="$dpdk_cflags $dpdk_ldflags" \
+		-Dmachine=native -Ddisable_drivers=$(printf "%s," "${DPDK_DISABLED_DRIVERS[@]}")
+	ninja -C "$external_dpdk_base_dir/build-tmp" $MAKEFLAGS
+	ninja -C "$external_dpdk_base_dir/build-tmp" $MAKEFLAGS install
+
+	cd "$orgdir"
+}
+
 function make_fail_cleanup() {
 	if [ -d $out/scan-build-tmp ]; then
 		scanoutput=$(ls -1 $out/scan-build-tmp/)
@@ -177,6 +241,17 @@ if [ $SPDK_RUN_UBSAN -eq 1 ]; then
 	run_test "ubsan" echo "using ubsan"
 fi
 
+if [ -n "$SPDK_TEST_NATIVE_DPDK" ]; then
+	run_test "build_native_dpdk" build_native_dpdk
+fi
+
+./configure $config_params
+echo "** START ** Info for Hostname: $HOSTNAME"
+uname -a
+$MAKE cc_version
+$MAKE cxx_version
+echo "** END ** Info for Hostname: $HOSTNAME"
+
 if [ "$SPDK_TEST_AUTOBUILD" -eq 1 ]; then
 	run_test "autobuild" autobuild_test_suite $1
 else
diff --git a/autotest.sh b/autotest.sh
index d14e65ddc2..ced290aa33 100755
--- a/autotest.sh
+++ b/autotest.sh
@@ -9,15 +9,13 @@ if [[ ! -f $1 ]]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
+# always test with SPDK shared objects.
+export SPDK_LIB_DIR="$rootdir/build/lib"
+
 source "$1"
 source "$rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh"
 source "$rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh"
 
-# always test with SPDK shared objects.
-export SPDK_LIB_DIR="$rootdir/build/lib"
-export DPDK_LIB_DIR="$rootdir/dpdk/build/lib"
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SPDK_LIB_DIR:$DPDK_LIB_DIR
-
 if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "$0 must be run as root"
 	exit 1
diff --git a/test/common/autotest_common.sh b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
index 7a45f4a795..05a1ac0abc 100755
--- a/test/common/autotest_common.sh
+++ b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ export SPDK_TEST_FTL_EXTENDED
 export SPDK_TEST_VMD
 : ${SPDK_TEST_OPAL=0}
 export SPDK_TEST_OPAL
+: ${SPDK_TEST_NATIVE_DPDK}
+export SPDK_TEST_NATIVE_DPDK
 : ${SPDK_AUTOTEST_X=true}
 export SPDK_AUTOTEST_X
 : ${SPDK_TEST_RAID5=0}
@@ -127,6 +129,9 @@ export SPDK_TEST_RAID5
 : ${SPDK_TEST_URING=0}
 export SPDK_TEST_URING
 
+export DPDK_LIB_DIR="${SPDK_RUN_EXTERNAL_DPDK:-$rootdir/dpdk/build}/lib"
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SPDK_LIB_DIR:$DPDK_LIB_DIR
+
 # Tell setup.sh to wait for block devices upon each reset
 export PCI_BLOCK_SYNC_ON_RESET=yes
 
diff --git a/test/common/skipped_tests.txt b/test/common/skipped_tests.txt
index 56b8133a49..f978e4147b 100644
--- a/test/common/skipped_tests.txt
+++ b/test/common/skipped_tests.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ vmd_perf
 bdev_fio_rw_verify_ext
 bdev_fio_trim_ext
 bdev_reset
+build_native_dpdk
 iscsi_tgt_digest
 iscsi_tgt_data_digest
 iscsi_tgt_pmem