On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Ian Stokes wrote: > 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. > > 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.
Oh, so originally it *was* the basis of an operating system. That makes a little bit of sense now. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
