wrong report for cycles/pkt or pps
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450
Bug ID: 450
Summary: wrong report for cycles/pkt or pps
Product: DPDK
Version: 20.02
Hardware: ARM
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: testpmd
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]Target Milestone: ---
According to doc/guides/prog_guide/profile_app.rst RTE_ARM_EAL_RDTSC_USE_PMU has to be used over ARM CPU to get correct cyc/pkt report. This involves using OOT (non upstream) kernel module which is problematic and reported to be non-stable.
Moreover, once the PMU configuration is set, the pps report done by testpmd is wrong, so this doesn't really help, as one wants to see both pps and cyc/pkt.
If the PMU configuration is not set, indeed the cyc/pkt report is wrong, but this is due to using a timer which is not running in the CPU frequency. If the CPU frequency would be used we can get a correct cyc/pkt report without the PMU config.
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