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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: Accuracy of rte_get_tsc_hz() compared to linux
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:27:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240918162739.144ffd9d@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC-fF8TBY03BDgUaTgL5Qn4G9q134hh8cZR89SQ=ifL+YhCM9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:04:40 +0300
Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've run the helloworld application on an isolated cpu:
> taskset -c 10 ./dpdk-helloworld --log-level=lib.eal:debug --no-huge
> 
> The results are:
> EAL: TSC frequency arch ~2100000 KHz
> EAL: TSC frequency linux ~2095082 KHz
> EAL: TSC frequency estimate ~2095346 KHz
> 
> The arch one is picked, which seems rather wrong, any way to override that?
> Should we lower the estimation rounding to 1MHz or even 1KHz in the linux one?
> 
> Thoughts? Thanks!
> 
> Kernel: 4.18.0-513.9.1.el8_9.x86_64

Note: 4.18 kernel was end of life 12 August 2018, I assume
this is RHEL8 which does their own backports and never changes kernel version.

What is the kernel dmesg, why is it deciding on that value?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-18 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-18 22:04 Isaac Boukris
2024-09-18 23:27 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-09-19  9:37   ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-19 12:26   ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-19 13:04     ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-19 18:33       ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-19 21:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-19 22:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-19 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-20  3:19   ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-20 14:39     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-20 15:06       ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-21  6:36         ` Isaac Boukris
2024-09-20  7:26   ` David Marchand
2024-09-20 14:36     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-20 15:11       ` Isaac Boukris

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