[PATCH 08/29] examples/distributor: correct documentation errors

Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14T22:25:57Z

Address issues in distributor sample documentation:
- Capitalize "linux" to "Linux"
- Add missing space before function name in thread description
- Add missing article: "is done in same way" to
"is done in the same way"

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/dist_app.rst | 30 +++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/dist_app.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/dist_app.rst
index 30b4184d40..f4a2de50d6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/dist_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/dist_app.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Distributor Sample Application
==============================

-The distributor sample application is a simple example of packet distribution
+The distributor sample application is an example of packet distribution
to cores using the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). It also makes use of
Intel Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency (Intel SST-BF) to pin the
distributor to the higher frequency core if available.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ generator as shown in the figure below.
Compiling the Application
-------------------------

-To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
+To compile the sample application, see :doc:`compiling`.

The application is located in the ``distributor`` sub-directory.

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Running the Application
* -p PORTMASK: Hexadecimal bitmask of ports to configure
* -c: Combines the RX core with distribution core

-#. To run the application in linux environment with 10 lcores, 4 ports,
+#. To run the application in a Linux environment with 10 lcores, 4 ports,
issue the command:

.. code-block:: console
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ Explanation

The distributor application consists of four types of threads: a receive
thread (``lcore_rx()``), a distributor thread (``lcore_dist()``), a set of
-worker threads (``lcore_worker()``), and a transmit thread(``lcore_tx()``).
+worker threads (``lcore_worker()``), and a transmit thread (``lcore_tx()``).
How these threads work together is shown in :numref:`figure_dist_app` below.
-The ``main()`` function launches threads of these four types. Each thread
+The ``main()`` function launches threads of these four types. Each thread
has a while loop which will be doing processing and which is terminated
only upon SIGINT or ctrl+C.

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ the distributor, doing a simple XOR operation on the input port mbuf field
(to indicate the output port which will be used later for packet transmission)
and then finally returning the packets back to the distributor thread.

-The distributor thread will then call the distributor api
+The distributor thread will then call the distributor API
``rte_distributor_returned_pkts()`` to get the processed packets, and will enqueue
them to another rte_ring for transfer to the TX thread for transmission on the
output port. The transmit thread will dequeue the packets from the ring and
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ final statistics to the user.

Intel SST-BF Support
---------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In DPDK 19.05, support was added to the power management library for
Intel-SST-BF, a technology that allows some cores to run at a higher
@@ -114,20 +114,20 @@ and is entitled
`Intel Speed Select Technology – Base Frequency - Enhancing Performance <https://builders.intel.com/docs/networkbuilders/intel-speed-select-technology-base-frequency-enhancing-performance.pdf>`_

The distributor application was also enhanced to be aware of these higher
-frequency SST-BF cores, and when starting the application, if high frequency
+frequency SST-BF cores. When starting the application, if high frequency
SST-BF cores are present in the core mask, the application will identify these
cores and pin the workloads appropriately. The distributor core is usually
the bottleneck, so this is given first choice of the high frequency SST-BF
-cores, followed by the rx core and the tx core.
+cores, followed by the Rx core and the Tx core.

Debug Logging Support
----------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Debug logging is provided as part of the application; the user needs to uncomment
the line "#define DEBUG" defined in start of the application in main.c to enable debug logs.

Statistics
-----------
+~~~~~~~~~~

The main function will print statistics on the console every second. These
statistics include the number of packets enqueued and dequeued at each stage
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ in the application, and also key statistics per worker, including how many
packets of each burst size (1-8) were sent to each worker thread.

Application Initialization
---------------------------
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Command line parsing is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding Sample
Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_cmd_arguments`.
@@ -143,11 +143,11 @@ Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_cmd_arguments`.
Mbuf pool initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding
Sample Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_mbuf_init`.

-Driver Initialization is done in same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding Sample
+Driver Initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding Sample
Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_dvr_init`.

-RX queue initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding
+Rx queue initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding
Sample Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_rx_init`.

-TX queue initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding
+Tx queue initialization is done in the same way as it is done in the L2 Forwarding
Sample Application. See :ref:`l2_fwd_app_tx_init`.
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