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DPDK: What environment abstraction layer (EAL) does for a DPDK based application ?

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DPDK: What environment abstraction layer (EAL) does for a DPDK based application ?
posted Jul 12, 2018 by Harshita

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Environment Abstraction layer initializes DPDK modules before an application start. It mainly initializes lcore(s), memory and ports used by application.

answer Jul 24, 2018 by Vimal Kumar Mishra
Thanks Vimal.
commented Jul 25, 2018 by Harshita
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