On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:14:40 +0000
"Varghese, Vipin" <vipin.vargh...@intel.com> wrote:

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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.  
> > > > >
> > > > > The CPU frequency on headers!
> > > > > OK to remove :)
> > > > >  
> > > >
> > > > 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"`.  
> > > >
> > > > But if there better way to do this or add as new feature, +1 to remove. 
> > > >  
> > >
> > > 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?  
> 
> Looking forward for the patch with clock change too.

There is no part of what proc-info is show with xstats that displays or uses 
tsc directly.
Do you have a driver that is putting TSC information in xstats?

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