mbuf: remove control mbuf

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / prog_guide / overview.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
index cef6ca7..af411fd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ The services provided by the EAL are:
 
 *   Alarm operations
 
+*   Memory management (malloc)
+
 The EAL is fully described in :ref:`Environment Abstraction Layer <Environment_Abstraction_Layer>`.
 
 Core Components
@@ -127,15 +129,6 @@ for high-performance packet processing applications.
    Core Components Architecture
 
 
-Memory Manager (librte_malloc)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The librte_malloc library provides an API to allocate memory from the memzones created from the hugepages instead of the heap.
-This helps when allocating large numbers of items that may become susceptible to TLB misses
-when using typical 4k heap pages in the Linux user space environment.
-
-This memory allocator is fully described in :ref:`Malloc Library <Malloc_Library>`.
-
 Ring Manager (librte_ring)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -164,8 +157,8 @@ The mbuf library provides the facility to create and destroy buffers
 that may be used by the DPDK application to store message buffers.
 The message buffers are created at startup time and stored in a mempool, using the DPDK mempool library.
 
-This library provide an API to allocate/free mbufs, manipulate control message buffers (ctrlmbuf) which are generic message buffers,
-and packet buffers (pktmbuf) which are used to carry network packets.
+This library provides an API to allocate/free mbufs, manipulate
+packet buffers which are used to carry network packets.
 
 Network Packet Buffer Management is described in :ref:`Mbuf Library <Mbuf_Library>`.