Accuracy of rte_get_tsc_hz() compared to linux

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:26:05 +0200
David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 12:22 AM Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > Sigh. exposing tsc frequency through sysfs is a Redhat extension
> > that never got merged upstream.  
> 
> Counter sight :-).
> 
> Not sure where this assertion comes from.
> I see no trace of this downstream: RH policy is "upstream first".
> 

I missed the driver stuff in original mail and assumed that
since it wasn't in upstream (or Debian) that it came from Redhat. Sorry.

It would be good if kernel exposed it, and there was a proposal
to do that, but it seemed to die from "no one should ever need or care about that"

https://lwn.net/Articles/388263/