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The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
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The DPDK is a set of software libraries to enable packet processing. It
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consists of a set of polling mode drivers (PMD) which can be used to pull
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network packets directly from a Network Interface Card (NIC), as well as
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other libraries to assist in the processing of those packets. The additional
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libraries include ones for:
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* memory and buffer management
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* packet classification
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* software rings or FIFOs to allow packet transfer between cores
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amongst others.
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Applications written using the DPDK run in userspace. The devices used by a
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DPDK application are removed from kernel control and are instead managed
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directly by that application.
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