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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
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Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:51:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add l2reflect measurement application
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03/07/2020 17:18, Felix Moessbauer:
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> this patch adds a measurement application to benchmark the latency
> of transmitting l2 packets via DPDK.

Are you using a real time system to reduce latency?

> We add this application to the examples folder, as similar tools
> were placed there as well.

No, the examples are not supposed to be tools.
They demonstrate some APIs.

If it is a tool to measure performance, and can be used in a CI,
I think it is better hosted in the directory apps/.