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**Part 1: Architecture Overview**
* Alarm operations
-* Memory managenent (malloc)
+* Memory management (malloc)
The EAL is fully described in :ref:`Environment Abstraction Layer <Environment_Abstraction_Layer>`.
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,
+This library provides 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.
Network Packet Buffer Management is described in :ref:`Mbuf Library <Mbuf_Library>`.