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Lesson 2 of 4advanced
DPDK: Data Plane Development Kit
Poll-mode drivers, hugepages, memory pools, ring buffers, and build a L2/L3 forwarding application with zero-copy.
300 min estimated50 XP3 curated resources
What you'll learn
- Bind NICs to vfio-pci or uio for userspace access
- Configure hugepages and mempools for packet buffers
- Use rte_ring for lock-free inter-core communication
- Profile with cycle-accurate timestamps
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