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From: Gokul Bargaje <gokulbargaje.182009@nitk.edu.in>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] What is the 'unit of timestamp' assigned to mbuf packet
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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