[PATCH v2 4/8] doc: correct typos in switch representation guide
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jan 28 20:46:03 CET 2026
Two typos corrected:
- "according on" to "according to"
- "physical of virtual" to "physical or virtual"
Correct minor grammatical issue in the switch representation guide:
- Add missing article "a" before "large number of ports"
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/switch_representation.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/switch_representation.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/switch_representation.rst
index 2ef2772afb..3d9d8d8d60 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/switch_representation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/ethdev/switch_representation.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ managed by the host system and fully transparent to users and applications.
On the other hand, applications typically found on hypervisors that process
layer 2 (L2) traffic (such as OVS) need to steer traffic themselves
-according on their own criteria.
+according to their own criteria.
Without a standard software interface to manage traffic steering rules
between VFs, SFs, PFs and the various physical ports of a given device,
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ thought as a software "patch panel" front-end for applications.
- Among other things, they can be used to assign MAC addresses to the
resource they represent.
-- Applications can tell port representors apart from other physical of virtual
+- Applications can tell port representors apart from other physical or virtual
port by checking the dev_flags field within their device information
structure for the RTE_ETH_DEV_REPRESENTOR bit-field.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ thought as a software "patch panel" front-end for applications.
- For some PMDs, memory usage of representors is huge when number of
representor grows, mbufs are allocated for each descriptor of Rx queue.
- Polling large number of ports brings more CPU load, cache miss and
+ Polling a large number of ports brings more CPU load, cache miss and
latency. Shared Rx queue can be used to share Rx queue between PF and
representors among same Rx domain. ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_RXQ_SHARE`` in
device info is used to indicate the capability. Setting non-zero share
--
2.51.0
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