[ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, v1] netdev-rte-offloads: Reassign vport netdev functions.

Ian Stokes ian.stokes at intel.com
Thu Apr 18 15:58:58 UTC 2019


On 4/17/2019 5:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> rte comes from dpdk as an acronym for Run Time Environment.  Maybe even
>> just dropping the 'rte_' portion?
> 
> *That* is what rte stands for?  What a ridiculously generic name.  It's
> like naming a library Operating System.

This piqued my interest also, with DPDK in the early days it was 
targeting bare metal comms systems, so the original API was LWRTE 
(LiteWeight Run Time Environment) which became RTE as it moved on from 
bare metal, so it seems more of a legacy convention.

Ian



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