On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:04:40 +0300 Isaac Boukris <ibouk...@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?