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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 9f9491ff0..f43c65bab 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ on a specific platform, please see one of these files:
     - INSTALL.RHEL
     - INSTALL.XenServer
     - INSTALL.NetBSD
+    - INSTALL.DPDK
 
 Build Requirements
 ------------------
@@ -36,11 +37,15 @@ you will need the following software:
 
     - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
 
-To compile the kernel module on Linux, you must also install the
-following.  If you cannot build or install the kernel module, you may
-use the userspace-only implementation, at a cost in performance.  The
-userspace implementation may also lack some features.  Refer to
-INSTALL.userspace for more information.
+On Linux, you may choose to compile the kernel module that comes with
+the Open vSwitch distribution or to use the kernel module built into
+the Linux kernel (version 3.3 or later).  See the FAQ question "What
+features are not available in the Open vSwitch kernel datapath that
+ships as part of the upstream Linux kernel?" for more information on
+this trade-off.  You may also use the userspace-only implementation,
+at some cost in features and performance (see INSTALL.userspace for
+details).  To compile the kernel module on Linux, you must also
+install the following:
 
     - A supported Linux kernel version.  Please refer to README for a
       list of supported versions.
@@ -279,9 +284,9 @@ Startup
 Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its
 configuration database, ovsdb-server.  Each machine on which Open
 vSwitch is installed should run its own copy of ovsdb-server.
-Configure it to use the database you created during step 7 of
-installation, above, to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to
-any managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
+Configure it to use the database you created during installation (as
+explained above), to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to any
+managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
 configuration in the database:
 
       % ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \