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—or I can send you a copy of the paper once it’s completed.

From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2025 10:06 AM
To: Adel Belkhiri <adel-2.belkhiri@polymtl.ca>
Cc: users@dpdk.org <users@dpdk.org>; dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: DPDK observability survey (≈7 min)

Hello Adel,

21/10/2025 16:18, Adel Belkhiri:
> Quick reminder about our ≈7-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 Montréal, Ericsson Canada, and Ciena.

Will you share the results here?

Thank you