API {#index}
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There are many libraries, so their headers may be grouped by topics:

- **device**:
  [dev]                (@ref rte_dev.h),
  [ethdev]             (@ref rte_ethdev.h),
  [ethctrl]            (@ref rte_eth_ctrl.h),
  [rte_flow]           (@ref rte_flow.h),
  [rte_flow_driver]    (@ref rte_flow_driver.h),
  [cryptodev]          (@ref rte_cryptodev.h),
  [devargs]            (@ref rte_devargs.h),
  [PCI]                (@ref rte_pci.h)

- **device specific**:
  [bond]               (@ref rte_eth_bond.h),
  [vhost]              (@ref rte_virtio_net.h),
  [KNI]                (@ref rte_kni.h),
  [ixgbe]              (@ref rte_pmd_ixgbe.h),
  [i40e]               (@ref rte_pmd_i40e.h)

- **memory**:
  [memseg]             (@ref rte_memory.h),
  [memzone]            (@ref rte_memzone.h),
  [mempool]            (@ref rte_mempool.h),
  [malloc]             (@ref rte_malloc.h),
  [memcpy]             (@ref rte_memcpy.h)

- **timers**:
  [cycles]             (@ref rte_cycles.h),
  [timer]              (@ref rte_timer.h),
  [alarm]              (@ref rte_alarm.h)

- **locks**:
  [atomic]             (@ref rte_atomic.h),
  [rwlock]             (@ref rte_rwlock.h),
  [spinlock]           (@ref rte_spinlock.h)

- **CPU arch**:
  [branch prediction]  (@ref rte_branch_prediction.h),
  [cache prefetch]     (@ref rte_prefetch.h),
  [SIMD]               (@ref rte_vect.h),
  [byte order]         (@ref rte_byteorder.h),
  [CPU flags]          (@ref rte_cpuflags.h),
  [I/O access]         (@ref rte_io.h)

- **CPU multicore**:
  [interrupts]         (@ref rte_interrupts.h),
  [launch]             (@ref rte_launch.h),
  [lcore]              (@ref rte_lcore.h),
  [per-lcore]          (@ref rte_per_lcore.h),
  [power/freq]         (@ref rte_power.h)

- **layers**:
  [ethernet]           (@ref rte_ether.h),
  [ARP]                (@ref rte_arp.h),
  [ICMP]               (@ref rte_icmp.h),
  [IP]                 (@ref rte_ip.h),
  [SCTP]               (@ref rte_sctp.h),
  [TCP]                (@ref rte_tcp.h),
  [UDP]                (@ref rte_udp.h),
  [frag/reass]         (@ref rte_ip_frag.h),
  [LPM IPv4 route]     (@ref rte_lpm.h),
  [LPM IPv6 route]     (@ref rte_lpm6.h),
  [ACL]                (@ref rte_acl.h),
  [EFD]                (@ref rte_efd.h)

- **QoS**:
  [metering]           (@ref rte_meter.h),
  [scheduler]          (@ref rte_sched.h),
  [RED congestion]     (@ref rte_red.h)

- **hashes**:
  [hash]               (@ref rte_hash.h),
  [jhash]              (@ref rte_jhash.h),
  [thash]              (@ref rte_thash.h),
  [FBK hash]           (@ref rte_fbk_hash.h),
  [CRC hash]           (@ref rte_hash_crc.h)

- **containers**:
  [mbuf]               (@ref rte_mbuf.h),
  [ring]               (@ref rte_ring.h),
  [distributor]        (@ref rte_distributor.h),
  [reorder]            (@ref rte_reorder.h),
  [tailq]              (@ref rte_tailq.h),
  [bitmap]             (@ref rte_bitmap.h),

- **packet framework**:
  * [port]             (@ref rte_port.h):
    [ethdev]           (@ref rte_port_ethdev.h),
    [ring]             (@ref rte_port_ring.h),
    [frag]             (@ref rte_port_frag.h),
    [reass]            (@ref rte_port_ras.h),
    [sched]            (@ref rte_port_sched.h),
    [kni]              (@ref rte_port_kni.h),
    [src/sink]         (@ref rte_port_source_sink.h)
  * [table]            (@ref rte_table.h):
    [lpm IPv4]         (@ref rte_table_lpm.h),
    [lpm IPv6]         (@ref rte_table_lpm_ipv6.h),
    [ACL]              (@ref rte_table_acl.h),
    [hash]             (@ref rte_table_hash.h),
    [array]            (@ref rte_table_array.h),
    [stub]             (@ref rte_table_stub.h)
  * [pipeline]         (@ref rte_pipeline.h)

- **basic**:
  [approx fraction]    (@ref rte_approx.h),
  [random]             (@ref rte_random.h),
  [config file]        (@ref rte_cfgfile.h),
  [key/value args]     (@ref rte_kvargs.h),
  [string]             (@ref rte_string_fns.h)

- **debug**:
  [jobstats]           (@ref rte_jobstats.h),
  [pdump]              (@ref rte_pdump.h),
  [hexdump]            (@ref rte_hexdump.h),
  [debug]              (@ref rte_debug.h),
  [log]                (@ref rte_log.h),
  [errno]              (@ref rte_errno.h)

- **misc**:
  [EAL config]         (@ref rte_eal.h),
  [common]             (@ref rte_common.h),
  [ABI compat]         (@ref rte_compat.h),
  [keepalive]          (@ref rte_keepalive.h),
  [version]            (@ref rte_version.h)