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-**Figures**
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-:ref:`Figure 1. Core Components Architecture <pg_figure_1>`
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-:ref:`Figure 2. EAL Initialization in a Linux Application Environment <pg_figure_2>`
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-:ref:`Figure 3. Example of a malloc heap and malloc elements within the malloc library <pg_figure_3>`
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-:ref:`Figure 4. Ring Structure <pg_figure_4>`
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-:ref:`Figure 5. Two Channels and Quad-ranked DIMM Example <pg_figure_5>`
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-:ref:`Figure 6. Three Channels and Two Dual-ranked DIMM Example <pg_figure_6>`
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-:ref:`Figure 7. A mempool in Memory with its Associated Ring <pg_figure_7>`
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-:ref:`Figure 8. An mbuf with One Segment <pg_figure_8>`
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-:ref:`Figure 9. An mbuf with Three Segments <pg_figure_9>`
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-:ref:`Figure 10. Virtualization for a Single Port NIC in SR-IOV Mode <pg_figure_10>`
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-:ref:`Figure 11. Performance Benchmark Setup <pg_figure_11>`
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-:ref:`Figure 12. Fast Host-based Packet Processing <pg_figure_12>`
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-:ref:`Figure 13. Inter-VM Communication <pg_figure_13>`
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-:ref:`Figure 14. Host2VM Communication Example Using kni vhost Back End <pg_figure_14>`
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-:ref:`Figure 15. Host2VM Communication Example Using qemu vhost Back End <pg_figure_15>`
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-:ref:`Figure 16. Memory Sharing inthe Intel® DPDK Multi-process Sample Application <pg_figure_16>`
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-:ref:`Figure 17. Components of an Intel® DPDK KNI Application <pg_figure_17>`
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-:ref:`Figure 18. Packet Flow via mbufs in the Intel DPDK® KNI <pg_figure_18>`
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-:ref:`Figure 19. vHost-net Architecture Overview <pg_figure_19>`
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-:ref:`Figure 20. KNI Traffic Flow <pg_figure_20>`
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-:ref:`Figure 21. Complex Packet Processing Pipeline with QoS Support <pg_figure_21>`
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-:ref:`Figure 22. Hierarchical Scheduler Block Internal Diagram <pg_figure_22>`
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-:ref:`Figure 23. Scheduling Hierarchy per Port <pg_figure_23>`
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-:ref:`Figure 24. Internal Data Structures per Port <pg_figure_24>`
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-:ref:`Figure 25. Prefetch Pipeline for the Hierarchical Scheduler Enqueue Operation <pg_figure_25>`
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-:ref:`Figure 26. Pipe Prefetch State Machine for the Hierarchical Scheduler Dequeue Operation <pg_figure_26>`
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-:ref:`Figure 27. High-level Block Diagram of the Intel® DPDK Dropper <pg_figure_27>`
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-:ref:`Figure 28. Flow Through the Dropper <pg_figure_28>`
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-:ref:`Figure 29. Example Data Flow Through Dropper <pg_figure_29>`
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-:ref:`Figure 30. Packet Drop Probability for a Given RED Configuration <pg_figure_30>`
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-:ref:`Figure 31. Initial Drop Probability (pb), Actual Drop probability (pa) Computed Using a Factor 1 (Blue Curve) and a Factor 2 (Red Curve) <pg_figure_31>`
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-:ref:`Figure 32. Example of packet processing pipeline. The input ports 0 and 1 are connected with the output ports 0, 1 and 2 through tables 0 and 1. <pg_figure_32>`
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-:ref:`Figure 33. Sequence of steps for hash table operations in packet processing context <pg_figure_33>`
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-:ref:`Figure 34. Data structures for configurable key size hash tables <pg_figure_34>`
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-:ref:`Figure 35. Bucket search pipeline for key lookup operation (configurable key size hash tables) <pg_figure_35>`
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-:ref:`Figure 36. Pseudo-code for match, match_many and match_pos <pg_figure_36>`
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-:ref:`Figure 37. Data structures for 8-byte key hash tables <pg_figure_37>`
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-:ref:`Figure 38. Data structures for 16-byte key hash tables <pg_figure_38>`
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-:ref:`Figure 39. Bucket search pipeline for key lookup operation (single key size hash tables) <pg_figure_39>`
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-**Tables**
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-:ref:`Table 1. Packet Processing Pipeline Implementing QoS <pg_table_1>`
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-:ref:`Table 2. Infrastructure Blocks Used by the Packet Processing Pipeline <pg_table_2>`
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-:ref:`Table 3. Port Scheduling Hierarchy <pg_table_3>`
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-:ref:`Table 4. Scheduler Internal Data Structures per Port <pg_table_4>`
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-:ref:`Table 5. Ethernet Frame Overhead Fields <pg_table_5>`
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-:ref:`Table 6. Token Bucket Generic Operations <pg_table_6>`
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-:ref:`Table 7. Token Bucket Generic Parameters <pg_table_7>`
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-:ref:`Table 8. Token Bucket Persistent Data Structure <pg_table_8>`
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-:ref:`Table 9. Token Bucket Operations <pg_table_9>`
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-:ref:`Table 10. Subport/Pipe Traffic Class Upper Limit Enforcement Persistent Data Structure <pg_table_10>`
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-:ref:`Table 11. Subport/Pipe Traffic Class Upper Limit Enforcement Operations <pg_table_11>`
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-:ref:`Table 12. Weighted Round Robin (WRR) <pg_table_12>`
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-:ref:`Table 13. Subport Traffic Class Oversubscription <pg_table_13>`
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-:ref:`Table 14. Watermark Propagation from Subport Level to Member Pipes at the Beginning of Each Traffic Class Upper Limit Enforcement Period <pg_table_14>`
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-:ref:`Table 15. Watermark Calculation <pg_table_15>`
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-:ref:`Table 16. RED Configuration Parameters <pg_table_16>`
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-:ref:`Table 17. Relative Performance of Alternative Approaches <pg_table_17>`
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-:ref:`Table 18. RED Configuration Corresponding to RED Configuration File <pg_table_18>`
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-:ref:`Table 19. Port types <pg_table_19>`
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-:ref:`Table 20. Port abstract interface <pg_table_20>`
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-:ref:`Table 21. Table types <pg_table_21>`
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-:ref:`Table 29. Table Abstract Interface <pg_table_29_1>`
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-:ref:`Table 22. Configuration parameters common for all hash table types <pg_table_22>`
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-:ref:`Table 23. Configuration parameters specific to extendible bucket hash table <pg_table_23>`
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-:ref:`Table 24. Configuration parameters specific to pre-computed key signature hash table <pg_table_24>`
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-:ref:`Table 25. The main large data structures (arrays) used for configurable key size hash tables <pg_table_25>`
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-:ref:`Table 26. Field description for bucket array entry (configurable key size hash tables) <pg_table_26>`
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-:ref:`Table 27. Description of the bucket search pipeline stages (configurable key size hash tables) <pg_table_27>`
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-:ref:`Table 28. Lookup tables for match, match_many, match_pos <pg_table_28>`
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-:ref:`Table 29. Collapsed lookup tables for match, match_many and match_pos <pg_table_29>`
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-:ref:`Table 30. The main large data structures (arrays) used for 8-byte and 16-byte key size hash tables <pg_table_30>`
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-:ref:`Table 31. Field description for bucket array entry (8-byte and 16-byte key hash tables) <pg_table_31>`
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-:ref:`Table 32. Description of the bucket search pipeline stages (8-byte and 16-byte key hash tables) <pg_table_32>`
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-:ref:`Table 33. Next hop actions (reserved) <pg_table_33>`
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-:ref:`Table 34. User action examples <pg_table_34>`