11. Glossary¶
- API
Application Programming Interface
- BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
- CNDP
Cloud Native Data Plane.
- Control Plane
The control plane is concerned with the routing of packets and with providing a start or end point.
- Core
A core may include several lcores or threads if the processor supports hyperthreading.
- Core Components
A set of libraries provided by the CNDP, ring, mempool, pktmbuf and so on.
- CPU
Central Processing Unit
- Data Plane
In contrast to the control plane, the data plane in a network architecture are the layers involved when forwarding packets. These layers must be highly optimized to achieve good performance.
- DIMM
Dual In-line Memory Module
- Doxygen
A documentation generator used in the CNDP to generate the API reference.
- DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory
- DSA
Data Streaming Accelerator
- FIFO
First In First Out
- FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
- HW
Hardware
- ID
Identifier
- IOCTL
Input/Output Control
- I/O
Input/Output
- IP
Internet Protocol
- IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
- IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
- L1
Layer 1
- L2
Layer 2
- L3
Layer 3
- L4
Layer 4
- LAN
Local Area Network
- LPM
Longest Prefix Match
- MTU
Maximum Transfer Unit
- NIC
Network Interface Card
- OOO
Out Of Order (execution of instructions within the CPU pipeline)
- NUMA
Non-uniform Memory Access
- PCI
Peripheral Connect Interface
- PHY
An abbreviation for the physical layer of the OSI model.
- pktmbuf
A pktmbuf is a data structure used internally to carry messages (mainly network packets). The name is derived from BSD stacks. To understand the concepts of packet buffers or pktmbuf, refer to TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation.
- PMD
Poll Mode Driver
- QoS
Quality of Service
- RCU
Read-Copy-Update algorithm, an alternative to simple rwlocks.
- Rd
Read
- RED
Random Early Detection
- RSS
Receive Side Scaling
- Rx
Reception
- SLA
Service Level Agreement
- srTCM
Single Rate Three Color Marking
- SRTD
Scheduler Round Trip Delay
- SW
Software
- Target
In the CNDP, the target is a combination of architecture, machine, executive environment and toolchain. For example: i686-native-linux-gcc.
- TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
- TC
Traffic Class
- TLB
Translation Lookaside Buffer
- TLS
Thread Local Storage
- trTCM
Two Rate Three Color Marking
- TSC
Time Stamp Counter
- Tx
Transmission
- TUN/TAP
TUN and TAP are virtual network kernel devices.
- VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
- Wr
Write
- WRED
Weighted Random Early Detection
- WRR
Weighted Round Robin
