[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] app/proc-info: eliminate useless borders
Varghese, Vipin
vipin.varghese at intel.com
Fri Aug 14 02:45:17 CEST 2020
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> > > 15/07/2020 23:22, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > > Printing extra borders does not improve readability, and is just
> > > > unnecessary. Putting TSC hz in header also makes no sense here.
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> > > The CPU frequency on headers!
> > > OK to remove :)
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> > The rational of having Time Stamp Counter as the header for port info and
> stats, is to account for each iteration for an average `packets per second`. That
> is using `watch -d -n 1 ./dpdk-procinfo -- --xstats | grep -v ": 0"`.
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> > But if there better way to do this or add as new feature, +1 to remove.
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> Proc info should just use standard clock for its updates, not TSC?
Can you please explain the rationale behind the (syscall for time) and not TSC?
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