From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH 27/29] doc/guides: improve keep alive sample app guide
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:22:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260114222458.87119-28-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260114222458.87119-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
- fix "Cores states" to "Core states"
- add missing space in heartbeat period description
- add article before "Linux environment"
- fix "Keep- Alive" typo and capitalization
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.rst
index 8ae9d7c689..aaefeefe7e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/keep_alive.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The application demonstrates how to protect against 'silent outages'
on packet processing cores. A Keep Alive Monitor Agent Core (main)
monitors the state of packet processing cores (worker cores) by
dispatching pings at a regular time interval (default is 5ms) and
-monitoring the state of the cores. Cores states are: Alive, MIA, Dead
+monitoring the state of the cores. Core states are: Alive, MIA, Dead
or Buried. MIA indicates a missed ping, and Dead indicates two missed
pings within the specified time interval. When a core is Dead, a
callback function is invoked to restart the packet processing core;
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ where,
* ``q NQ``: Maximum number of queues per lcore (default is 1)
-* ``K PERIOD``: Heartbeat check period in ms(5ms default; 86400 max)
+* ``K PERIOD``: Heartbeat check period in ms (5ms default; 86400 max)
* ``T PERIOD``: statistics will be refreshed each PERIOD seconds (0 to
disable, 10 default, 86400 maximum).
-To run the application in linux environment with 4 lcores, 16 ports
+To run the application in a Linux environment with 4 lcores, 16 ports
8 RX queues per lcore and a ping interval of 10ms, issue the command:
.. code-block:: console
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ similar to those of the :doc:`l2_forward_real_virtual`.
The Keep-Alive/'Liveliness' conceptual scheme:
-* A Keep- Alive Agent Runs every N Milliseconds.
+* A Keep-Alive Agent runs every N Milliseconds.
* DPDK Cores respond to the keep-alive agent.
--
2.51.0
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2026-01-14 22:21 [PATCH 00/29] doc/guides: sample application documentation improvements Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 01/29] examples/timer: correct documentation errors Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 02/29] examples/packet_ordering: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 03/29] examples/service_cores: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 04/29] examples/rxtx_callbacks: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 05/29] examples/ip_fragmentation: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 06/29] examples/eventdev_pipeline: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 07/29] doc/guides: improve VMDq sample application documentation Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 08/29] examples/distributor: correct documentation errors Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 09/29] examples/ipv4_multicast: correct documentation typo Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 10/29] examples/test_pipeline: correct documentation errors Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 11/29] examples/qos: improve sample application documentation Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 12/29] examples/vhost: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 13/29] examples/ptpclient: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 14/29] doc/guides: improve vDPA sample application guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 15/29] doc/guides: improve command line sample app guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 16/29] doc/guides: improve DMA " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-19 0:47 ` fengchengwen
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 17/29] doc/guides: improve FIPS validation " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-19 5:59 ` [EXTERNAL] " Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
2026-01-14 22:21 ` [PATCH 18/29] doc/guides: improve Hello World " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 19/29] doc/guides: improve sample applications introduction Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 20/29] doc/guides: improve IP pipeline sample app guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 21/29] doc/guides: improve IP reassembly " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 22/29] doc/guides: improve IPsec security gateway guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 23/29] doc/guides: improve link status interrupt sample app guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 24/29] doc/guides: improve multi-process " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 25/29] doc/guides: improve pipeline " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 26/29] doc/guides: improve VM power management " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 28/29] fix ipsec gw Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:22 ` [PATCH 29/29] fix pipeline Stephen Hemminger
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