21/04/2019 11:11, Ophir Munk: > Thomas - would you like to explain more on the origins of "rte"?
Ian explained (below) the origin quite clearly. It has been decided in the early days by Intel. > From: Ian Stokes > > 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. Yes I agree that it's ridiculous :) I already proposed to replace rte_ with dpdk_ prefix but the vast majority was against a big replacement. Would you support such a change? > > 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. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
