1 # Storage Performance Development Kit {#index}
3 # Introduction {#intro}
5 - [SPDK on GitHub](https://github.com/spdk/spdk/)
6 - [SPDK.io](http://www.spdk.io/)
8 The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) provides a set of tools and libraries
9 for writing high performance, scalable, user-mode storage applications.
10 It achieves high performance by moving all of the necessary drivers
11 into userspace and operating in a polled mode instead of relying on interrupts,
12 which avoids kernel context switches and eliminates interrupt handling overhead.
14 ## General Information {#general}
16 - @ref directory_structure
18 - [Public API header files](files.html)