diff --git a/.ci/dpdk-build.sh b/.ci/dpdk-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..64dec87247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/dpdk-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -o errexit
+set -x
+
+function build_dpdk()
+{
+    local VERSION_FILE="dpdk-dir/cached-version"
+    local DPDK_VER=$1
+    local DPDK_OPTS=""
+
+    if [ "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}" != "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
+        # Avoid using cache for git tree build.
+        rm -rf dpdk-dir
+
+        DPDK_GIT=${DPDK_GIT:-https://dpdk.org/git/dpdk}
+        git clone --single-branch $DPDK_GIT dpdk-dir -b "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}"
+        pushd dpdk-dir
+        git log -1 --oneline
+    else
+        if [ -f "${VERSION_FILE}" ]; then
+            VER=$(cat ${VERSION_FILE})
+            if [ "${VER}" = "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
+                echo "Found already built DPDK ${VER} build in $(pwd)/dpdk-dir"
+                return
+            fi
+        fi
+        # No cache or version mismatch.
+        rm -rf dpdk-dir
+        wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-$1.tar.xz
+        tar xvf dpdk-$1.tar.xz > /dev/null
+        DIR_NAME=$(tar -tf dpdk-$1.tar.xz | head -1 | cut -f1 -d"/")
+        mv ${DIR_NAME} dpdk-dir
+        pushd dpdk-dir
+    fi
+
+    # Switching to 'default' machine to make dpdk-dir cache usable on
+    # different CPUs. We can't be sure that all CI machines are exactly same.
+    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Dmachine=default"
+
+    # Disable building DPDK unit tests. Not needed for OVS build or tests.
+    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Dtests=false"
+
+    # Disable DPDK developer mode, this results in less build checks and less
+    # meson verbose outputs.
+    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Ddeveloper_mode=disabled"
+
+    # OVS compilation and "normal" unit tests (run in the CI) do not depend on
+    # any DPDK driver being present.
+    # We can disable all drivers to save compilation time.
+    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Ddisable_drivers=*/*"
+
+    # Install DPDK using prefix.
+    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS --prefix=$(pwd)/build"
+
+    meson $DPDK_OPTS build
+    ninja -C build
+    ninja -C build install
+
+    echo "Installed DPDK source in $(pwd)"
+    popd
+    echo "${DPDK_VER}" > ${VERSION_FILE}
+}
+
+build_dpdk $DPDK_VER
diff --git a/.ci/dpdk-prepare.sh b/.ci/dpdk-prepare.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..f7e6215dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/dpdk-prepare.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -ev
+
+# Installing wheel separately because it may be needed to build some
+# of the packages during dependency backtracking and pip >= 22.0 will
+# abort backtracking on build failures:
+#     https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10655
+pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user wheel
+pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user pyelftools
+pip3 install --user  'meson==0.53.2'
diff --git a/.ci/linux-build.sh b/.ci/linux-build.sh
index 10021fddb2..99850a9434 100755
--- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
+++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ EXTRA_OPTS="--enable-Werror"
 
 function install_dpdk()
 {
-    local DPDK_VER=$1
     local VERSION_FILE="dpdk-dir/cached-version"
-    local DPDK_OPTS=""
     local DPDK_LIB=$(pwd)/dpdk-dir/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
 
     if [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
@@ -24,63 +22,14 @@ function install_dpdk()
     # Export the following path for pkg-config to find the .pc file.
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DPDK_LIB/pkgconfig/:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 
-    if [ "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}" != "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
-        # Avoid using cache for git tree build.
-        rm -rf dpdk-dir
-
-        DPDK_GIT=${DPDK_GIT:-https://dpdk.org/git/dpdk}
-        git clone --single-branch $DPDK_GIT dpdk-dir -b "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}"
-        pushd dpdk-dir
-        git log -1 --oneline
-    else
-        if [ -f "${VERSION_FILE}" ]; then
-            VER=$(cat ${VERSION_FILE})
-            if [ "${VER}" = "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
-                # Update the library paths.
-                sudo ldconfig
-                echo "Found cached DPDK ${VER} build in $(pwd)/dpdk-dir"
-                return
-            fi
-        fi
-        # No cache or version mismatch.
-        rm -rf dpdk-dir
-        wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-$1.tar.xz
-        tar xvf dpdk-$1.tar.xz > /dev/null
-        DIR_NAME=$(tar -tf dpdk-$1.tar.xz | head -1 | cut -f1 -d"/")
-        mv ${DIR_NAME} dpdk-dir
-        pushd dpdk-dir
+    if [ ! -f "${VERSION_FILE}" ]; then
+        echo "Could not find DPDK in $(pwd)/dpdk-dir"
+        return 1
     fi
 
-    # Switching to 'default' machine to make dpdk-dir cache usable on
-    # different CPUs. We can't be sure that all CI machines are exactly same.
-    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Dmachine=default"
-
-    # Disable building DPDK unit tests. Not needed for OVS build or tests.
-    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Dtests=false"
-
-    # Disable DPDK developer mode, this results in less build checks and less
-    # meson verbose outputs.
-    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Ddeveloper_mode=disabled"
-
-    # OVS compilation and "normal" unit tests (run in the CI) do not depend on
-    # any DPDK driver being present.
-    # We can disable all drivers to save compilation time.
-    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS -Ddisable_drivers=*/*"
-
-    # Install DPDK using prefix.
-    DPDK_OPTS="$DPDK_OPTS --prefix=$(pwd)/build"
-
-    CC=gcc meson $DPDK_OPTS build
-    ninja -C build
-    ninja -C build install
-
     # Update the library paths.
     sudo ldconfig
-
-
-    echo "Installed DPDK source in $(pwd)"
-    popd
-    echo "${DPDK_VER}" > ${VERSION_FILE}
+    echo "Found cached DPDK $(cat ${VERSION_FILE}) build in $(pwd)/dpdk-dir"
 }
 
 function configure_ovs()
@@ -130,10 +79,7 @@ assert ovs.json.from_string('{\"a\": 42}') == {'a': 42}"
 fi
 
 if [ "$DPDK" ] || [ "$DPDK_SHARED" ]; then
-    if [ -z "$DPDK_VER" ]; then
-        DPDK_VER="22.11.1"
-    fi
-    install_dpdk $DPDK_VER
+    install_dpdk
 fi
 
 if [ "$CC" = "clang" ]; then
diff --git a/.ci/linux-prepare.sh b/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
index f414a879c7..c28b6819a3 100755
--- a/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
+++ b/.ci/linux-prepare.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ cd ..
 #     https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/10655
 pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user wheel
 pip3 install --disable-pip-version-check --user \
-    flake8 'hacking>=3.0' netaddr pyparsing sphinx setuptools pyelftools
-pip3 install --user  'meson==0.53.2'
+    flake8 'hacking>=3.0' netaddr pyparsing sphinx setuptools
 
 # Install python test dependencies
 pip3 install -r python/test_requirements.txt
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index 39649c1b5c..2a5bd2b016 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -3,17 +3,79 @@ name: Build and Test
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
 jobs:
+  build-dpdk:
+    env:
+      dependencies: gcc libnuma-dev ninja-build
+      CC: gcc
+      DPDK_VER: 22.11.1
+    name: dpdk gcc
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+
+    steps:
+    - name: checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: update PATH
+      run:  |
+        echo "$HOME/bin"        >> $GITHUB_PATH
+        echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+
+    - name: create ci signature file for the dpdk cache key
+      # This will collect most of DPDK related lines, so hash will be different
+      # if something changed in a way we're building DPDK including DPDK_VER.
+      # This also allows us to use cache from any branch as long as version
+      # and a way we're building DPDK stays the same.
+      run:  |
+        grep -irE 'RTE_|DPDK|meson|ninja' .ci/dpdk-* > dpdk-ci-signature
+        grep -rwE 'DPDK_GIT|DPDK_VER' .github/ >> dpdk-ci-signature
+        if [ "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}" != "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
+            git ls-remote --heads $DPDK_GIT $DPDK_VER >> dpdk-ci-signature
+        fi
+        cat dpdk-ci-signature
+
+    - name: cache
+      id: dpdk_cache
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      env:
+        ci_key: ${{ hashFiles('dpdk-ci-signature') }}
+      with:
+        path: dpdk-dir
+        key:  dpdk-${{ env.ci_key }}
+
+    - name: set up python
+      if: steps.dpdk_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.9'
+
+    - name: update APT cache
+      if: steps.dpdk_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      run:  sudo apt update || true
+    - name: install common dependencies
+      if: steps.dpdk_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      run:  sudo apt install -y ${{ env.dependencies }}
+
+    - name: prepare
+      if: steps.dpdk_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      run:  ./.ci/dpdk-prepare.sh
+
+    - name: build
+      if: steps.dpdk_cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      run:  ./.ci/dpdk-build.sh
+
   build-linux:
+    needs: build-dpdk
     env:
       dependencies: |
-        automake libtool gcc bc libjemalloc2 libjemalloc-dev    \
-        libssl-dev llvm-dev libelf-dev libnuma-dev libpcap-dev  \
-        ninja-build selinux-policy-dev libbpf-dev
+        automake libtool gcc bc libjemalloc2 libjemalloc-dev libssl-dev \
+        llvm-dev libnuma-dev libpcap-dev selinux-policy-dev libbpf-dev
       ASAN:        ${{ matrix.asan }}
       UBSAN:       ${{ matrix.ubsan }}
       CC:          ${{ matrix.compiler }}
       DPDK:        ${{ matrix.dpdk }}
       DPDK_SHARED: ${{ matrix.dpdk_shared }}
+      DPDK_VER:    22.11.1
       LIBS:        ${{ matrix.libs }}
       M32:         ${{ matrix.m32 }}
       OPTS:        ${{ matrix.opts }}
@@ -111,18 +173,21 @@ jobs:
       # This also allows us to use cache from any branch as long as version
       # and a way we're building DPDK stays the same.
       run:  |
-        grep -irE 'RTE_|DPDK|meson|ninja' -r .ci/ > dpdk-ci-signature
+        grep -irE 'RTE_|DPDK|meson|ninja' -r .ci/dpdk-* > dpdk-ci-signature
+        grep -rwE 'DPDK_GIT|DPDK_VER' .github/ >> dpdk-ci-signature
+        if [ "${DPDK_VER##refs/*/}" != "${DPDK_VER}" ]; then
+            git ls-remote --heads $DPDK_GIT $DPDK_VER >> dpdk-ci-signature
+        fi
         cat dpdk-ci-signature
 
     - name: cache
       if:   matrix.dpdk != '' || matrix.dpdk_shared != ''
       uses: actions/cache@v3
       env:
-        matrix_key: ${{ matrix.dpdk }}${{ matrix.dpdk_shared }}
-        ci_key:     ${{ hashFiles('dpdk-ci-signature') }}
+        ci_key: ${{ hashFiles('dpdk-ci-signature') }}
       with:
         path: dpdk-dir
-        key:  ${{ env.matrix_key }}-${{ env.ci_key }}
+        key:  dpdk-${{ env.ci_key }}
 
     - name: update APT cache
       run:  sudo apt update || true
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index e605187b81..df9c33dfe6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	MAINTAINERS.rst \
 	README.rst \
 	NOTICE \
+	.ci/dpdk-build.sh \
+	.ci/dpdk-prepare.sh \
 	.ci/linux-build.sh \
 	.ci/linux-prepare.sh \
 	.ci/osx-build.sh \
