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Diffstat (limited to 'net/dpdk/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/dpdk/pkg-descr | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/dpdk/pkg-descr b/net/dpdk/pkg-descr index ceeae7c14dfc..a4f09217b2a0 100644 --- a/net/dpdk/pkg-descr +++ b/net/dpdk/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -The Intel(R) Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) +The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) -The Intel DPDK is a set of software libraries to enable packet processing. It +The DPDK is a set of software libraries to enable packet processing. It consists of a set of polling mode drivers (PMD) which can be used to pull network packets directly from a Network Interface Card (NIC), as well as other libraries to assist in the processing of those packets. The additional @@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ libraries include ones for: * software rings or FIFOs to allow packet transfer between cores amongst others. -Applications written using the DPDK run in userspace. The devices used by an -Intel DPDK application are removed from kernel control and are instead managed +Applications written using the DPDK run in userspace. The devices used by a +DPDK application are removed from kernel control and are instead managed directly by that application. |