[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] app/proc-info: eliminate useless borders

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 04:10:39 +0000
"Varghese, Vipin" <vipin.varghese at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> snipped
> > 
> > 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?