Hello Thomas, Thank you very much for your comment. What I meant by bare metal was actually on top of the OS, so you are absolutely right that the phrasing was confusing. I¡¯ve reworded the question according to your suggestion. Regarding the results, I¡¯m currently preparing an academic paper to submit either to the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) or the Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). I also plan to share the results at the next DPDK Summit. If you think it would be interesting to share the findings here in the group, I¡¯d be happy to do so¡ªor I can send you a copy of the paper once it¡¯s completed. Cheers, Adel ________________________________ From: Thomas Monjalon Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:06 AM To: Adel Belkhiri Cc: users@dpdk.org ; dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: DPDK observability survey (¡Ö7 min) Hello Adel, 21/10/2025 16:18, Adel Belkhiri: > Quick reminder about our ¡Ö7-minute survey > on how you debug and observe DPDK-based applications in real environments. > > Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/6zRAqxWYKj In the question "Runtime environment", I suppose "Bare Metal" means just on top of the OS? DPDK used to be a real bare metal environment, so I suggest rewording this question. > This will help guide open-source observability work (Trace Compass analyses) > by Polytechnique Montr¨¦al, Ericsson Canada, and Ciena. Will you share the results here? Thank you