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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Question about specifying constant time interval
 when using rte_get_timer_cycles().
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:10:09 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:59:27PM +0900, =EC=B5=9C=EC=9D=B5=EC=84=B1 wro=
te:
> Dear DPDK experts.
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> I have a question about specifying constant time interval when using rt=
e_get_timer_cycles();
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> Would you let me know how can I specify constant time 30 seconds of DRA=
IN_TIME?
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> I will really appreciate if let me know.
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> =20
> uint64_t now, old, DRAIN_TIME ;
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> DRAIN_TIME =3D  ?   // 30 seconds.
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> old =3D rte_get_timer_cycles();
> ...=20
> now =3D rte_get_timer_cycles();=20
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> if ((new-old) &gt; DRAIN_TIME ) { ... }=20
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> Thank you very much.
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> Sincerely Yours,
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> Ick-Sung Choi.
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The companion function rte_get_timer_hz should be what you want I think. =
It will
allow you to translate cycles to seconds/milliseconds.

/Bruce