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Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)

Q: What is Data Plane Development Kit?

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is an open source set of libraries and drivers that enables high-throughput, low-latency packet processing in user space on standard x86 and other processor architectures. Expanded Explanation 1. Technical Function and Core Characteristics DPDK provides a framework and optimized libraries that bypass the traditional Linux kernel networking stack and use user space drivers to interact directly with network interface controllers. It uses poll mode drivers,

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is an open source collection of user space libraries and drivers for high-throughput, low-latency packet processing on commodity servers, used in virtual network functions, cloud networking, and telecom data planes to accelerate software-based networking.

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