This document discusses Open vSwitch (OVS) and how using Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) can improve its performance. It notes that with standard OVS, there are many components between a virtual machine and physical networking that cause scalability and performance issues due to context switches. OVS-DPDK addresses this by using polling, hugepages, pinned CPUs, and userspace I/O to bypass the kernel and reduce overhead. The document shows that using DPDK can increase OVS throughput by over 8x and reduce latency by 30-37% compared to standard OVS.