From f7c01f813d19803b4fc95730a4da5db9725954b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maryam Tahhan Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:36:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: dpdk extended the initial note --- docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md index 55ee06bc..b60c1820 100644 --- a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md +++ b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ # The dpdkstat plugin +This plugin is optional and only has a specific use case: monitoring DPDK applications +that don't expose stats in any other way than the DPDK xstats API. + **Data Plane Development Kit** (DPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries for fast packet processing. Please note that this plugin is a polling based plugin rather than an events based plugin (using it will drive up core utilization on a system). -- 2.11.0