* Alarm operations
+* Memory management (malloc)
+
The EAL is fully described in :ref:`Environment Abstraction Layer <Environment_Abstraction_Layer>`.
Core Components
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)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>`.