[dpdk-dev] What is the 'unit of timestamp' assigned to mbuf packet in DPDK?

Gokul Bargaje gokulbargaje.182009 at nitk.edu.in
Mon Nov 18 15:29:43 CET 2019


Hi,

The timestamp assigned to packet at the time of enqueue (value of timestamp
field in mbuf), is it in milliseconds or microseconds or in cpu cycles?

How this timestamp is calculated? Is it calculated using the *rte_cycles.h*?

Thanks in advance!
--Gokul


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