<P><STRONG>Contents</STRONG></P><P>Preface......................................................................................................................vii</P><P>Editor........................................................................................................................xv</P><P>Contributors............................................................................................................xvii</P><B><I><P>SECTION 1 DPDK Foundation</P></I><P>Chapter 1 </B>Introduction...........................................................................................3</P><I><P>Heqing Zhu and Cunming Liang</P></I><B><P>Chapter 2 </B>Cache and Memory............................................................................. 31</P><I><P>Chen Jing and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 3 </B>Core-Based Parallelism....................................................................... 51</P><I><P>Qun Wan, Heqing Zhu, and Zhihong Wang</P></I><B><P>Chapter 4 </B>Synchronization...................................................................................65</P><I><P>Frank Liu and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 5 </B>Forwarding..........................................................................................85</P><I><P>Yipeng Wang, Jasvinder Singh, Zhe Tao, Liang Ma, and</P><P>Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 6 </B>PCIe/NIC........................................................................................... 115</P><I><P>Cunming Liang, Hunt David, and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 7 </B>PMD.................................................................................................. 133</P><I><P>Helin Zhang and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 8 </B>NIC-Based Parallellism..................................................................... 157</P><I><P>Jingjing Wu, Xiaolong Ye, and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 9 </B>NIC Offload....................................................................................... 183</P><I><P>Wenzhuo Lu and Heqing Zhu</I></P><B><P>Chapter 10 </B>Packet Security.................................................................................. 199</P><I><P>Fan Zhang (Roy) and Heqing Zhu</P><B><P>SECTION 2 I/O Virtualization</P></I><P>Chapter 11 </B>Hardware Virtualization................................................................... 219</P><I><P>Qian Xu and Rashmin Patel</P></I><B><P>Chapter 12 </B>Virtio.................................................................................................229</P><I><P>Tiwei Bie, Changchun Ouyang, and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 13 </B>Vhost-User......................................................................................... 251</P><I><P>Tiwei Bie and Heqing Zhu</P><B><P>SECTION 3 DPDK Applications</P></I><P>Chapter 14 </B>DPDK for NFV.................................................................................265</P><I><P>Xuekun Hu, Waterman Cao, and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 15 </B>Virtual Switch...................................................................................277</P><I><P>Ciara Loftus, Xuekun Hu, and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Chapter 16 </B>Storage Acceleration......................................................................... 291</P><I><P>Ziye Yang and Heqing Zhu</P></I><B><P>Index</B>.......................................................................................................................305</P>