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author | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-11-19 12:59:01 +0000 |
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committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-11-19 12:59:24 +0000 |
commit | 29058550643267a554e0368806dece63b047c5cb (patch) | |
tree | a6f573fe3fbc14585529b83cfcc65da2dceefbf5 /doc/guides/prog_guide | |
parent | 8a853e3f0275efc8b05cb195085d45946942744a (diff) |
New upstream version 18.11-rc4upstream/18.11-rc4
Change-Id: I861e1a2f7df210f57f44f1ad56b9ef789a4675e3
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/prog_guide/metrics_lib.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/metrics_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/metrics_lib.rst index 5cbe17c9..e68e4e74 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/metrics_lib.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/metrics_lib.rst @@ -271,3 +271,12 @@ de-initialise the latency library. .. code-block:: c rte_latencystats_uninit(); + +Timestamp and latency calculation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The Latency stats library marks the time in the timestamp field of the +mbuf for the ingress packets and sets the ``PKT_RX_TIMESTAMP`` flag of +``ol_flags`` for the mbuf to indicate the marked time as a valid one. +At the egress, the mbufs with the flag set are considered having valid +timestamp and are used for the latency calculation. |