diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index bd0cf42a1a5..76658d1ecf4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -47,3 +47,6 @@
 [submodule "src/dpdk"]
 	path = src/dpdk
 	url = https://github.com/ceph/dpdk
+[submodule "src/zstd"]
+	path = src/zstd
+	url = https://github.com/facebook/zstd
diff --git a/src/zstd b/src/zstd
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..dc9931205a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/zstd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit dc9931205a87fdf6b993b3e215139011d3ef9fee