DPDK is a fully open-source project that operates in userspace.
It's a multi-vendor and multi-architecture project, and it aims at achieving high
I/O performance and reaching high packet processing rates, which are
some of the most important features in the networking arena. It was created by
Intel in 2010 and moved to the Linux Foundation
in April 2017. This move positioned it as one of the most dominant and most
important open-source Linux projects.