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diff --git a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/what-is-vector-packet-processing.rst b/docs/overview/whatisvpp/what-is-vector-packet-processing.rst index 994318e81c5..50a5bab8af1 100644 --- a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/what-is-vector-packet-processing.rst +++ b/docs/overview/whatisvpp/what-is-vector-packet-processing.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Vector packet processing is a common approach among high performance `Userspace <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space>`_ packet processing applications such as developed with FD.io VPP and `DPDK <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Plane_Development_Kit>`_. The scalar based -aproach tends to be favoured by Operating System `Kernel +approach tends to be favoured by Operating System `Kernel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(operating_system)>`_ Network Stacks and Userspace stacks that don't have strict performance requirements. @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Userspace stacks that don't have strict performance requirements. A scalar packet processing network stack typically processes one packet at a time: an interrupt handling function takes a single packet from a Network -Inteface, and processes it through a set of functions: fooA calls fooB calls +Interface, and processes it through a set of functions: fooA calls fooB calls fooC and so on. .. code-block:: none @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ fooC and so on. +---> fooA(packet3) +---> fooB(packet3) +---> fooC(packet3) -Scalar packet processing is simple, but inefficent in these ways: +Scalar packet processing is simple, but inefficient in these ways: * When the code path length exceeds the size of the Microprocessor's instruction cache (I-cache), `thrashing @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Scalar packet processing is simple, but inefficent in these ways: In contrast, a vector packet processing network stack processes multiple packets at a time, called 'vectors of packets' or simply a 'vector'. An interrupt -handling function takes the vector of packets from a Network Inteface, and +handling function takes the vector of packets from a Network Interface, and processes the vector through a set of functions: fooA calls fooB calls fooC and so on. @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ so on. This approach fixes: -* The I-cache thrashing problem described above, by ammoritizing the cost of +* The I-cache thrashing problem described above, by amortizing the cost of I-cache loads across multiple packets. -* The ineffeciences associated with the deep call stack by recieving vectors +* The inefficiencies associated with the deep call stack by receiving vectors of up to 256 packets at a time from the Network Interface, and processes them using a directed graph of node. The graph scheduler invokes one node dispatch function at a time, restricting stack depth to a few stack frames. |