Achieving network wirespeed in an open standard manner: introducing vDPA (2019)

The "past few posts" mentioned in the beginning include:

* Introduction to virtio-networking and vhost-net [0] * How vhost-user came into being: Virtio-networking and DPDK [1]

There are more articles but these help with understanding the motivation behind vDPA.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-virtio-networkin... [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-vhost-user-came-being-vir...