Index

A

ACL Amdahl's law ARP

ASIC ATM Atomic scheduling

B

BGP	Bottom half

C

Cache line CN CNF Communications Processor Concurrency Context switch

Control plane Control thread Core isolation Core mask CPU CPU core Critical section

D

Data link layer Data plane Data plane control Data plane platform

Data race Domain logic DPU DVFS

E

EAL EAL parameters EAL thread

eBPF Event fd Exception traffic

F

False sharing Fast path Fast path lcore FIB File descriptor

Floating thread Flow cache Forwarding plane Frame Full core

H

Hardware threading Heterogeneous multiprocessors

High touch application Huge pages

I

Interrupt thread IPC

ISA Item of work

J

Jitter

K

Kernel thread

L

Layer 1 Layer 2 Layer 3 Layer 4 Lcore Lcore id

Link layer Load Lock contention Logical core Low touch application LTO

M

Main lcore Management plane MIB MT safe

Multiprocessing Multitasking Multithreading Mythical Man-Month

N

NAT ND NETCONF Network application Network function Network layer Network protocol suite Network stack

NIC Noisy neighbor Non-blocking algorithm Non-EAL thread Non-preemptable thread NPU NUMA NUMA node

O

Open vSwitch

Operating system thread OSI model

P

Packet Parallelism PDU Peer preemptable EAL thread Physical core Physical function PMD

PNF Preemptable thread Preemption safety Priority inversion Processing latency Processor affinity Program order

R

RAN RCU

Registered non-EAL thread RFS RSS

S

Scheduling latency Sequence counter Service cores framework Service lcore SIMD Slow path SMP SMT

SNMP Software prefetching Spinlock SR-IOV SSH Store Syslog System call

T

Thread Thread safety

TLS Top half Transparent huge pages

U

UE Unregistered non-EAL thread User mode thread

User plane User space thread User thread

V

Vector packet processing Virtual core

Virtual function VNF VPP

W

Wait-free algorithm Wall-clock latency

Work scheduler Worker lcore Working set size