In txonly and flowgen forwarding mode, calculating CPU per packets with total received packets is not accurate. Use total transmitted packets for these cases.
The error output under txonly mode: testpmd> show fwd stats all ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 ------------------- RX-packets: 0 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 0 TX-packets: 3582891927 TX-dropped: 401965824 TX-total: 3984857751 TX-bursts : 86381636 [0% of 0 pkts + 85% of 64 pkts + 15% of 32 pkts] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 ------------------- RX-packets: 1 RX-dropped: 394351696 RX-total: 394351697 TX-packets: 3582890632 TX-dropped: 401965568 TX-total: 3984856200 TX-bursts : 86381679 [0% of 0 pkts + 85% of 64 pkts + 15% of 32 pkts] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++ RX-packets: 1 RX-dropped: 394351696 RX-total: 394351697 TX-packets: 7165782559 TX-dropped: 803931392 TX-total: 7969713951 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CPU cycles/packet=54984156291.00 \ (total cycles=54984156291 / total RX packets=1) at 200 MHz Clock Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com> Fixes: 53324971a14e ("app/testpmd: display/clear forwarding stats on demand") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Cc: david.march...@redhat.com --- v2: Consolidate the output into a single printf. (Honnappa Nagarahalli) app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c index 4989d22..826d7dd 100644 --- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c +++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c @@ -1961,13 +1961,22 @@ fwd_stats_display(void) acc_stats_border, acc_stats_border); #ifdef RTE_TEST_PMD_RECORD_CORE_CYCLES #define CYC_PER_MHZ 1E6 - if (total_recv > 0) + if (total_recv > 0 || total_xmit > 0) { + uint8_t ingress; + if (strcmp(cur_fwd_eng->fwd_mode_name, "txonly") == 0 || + strcmp(cur_fwd_eng->fwd_mode_name, "flowgen") == 0) + ingress = 0; + else + ingress = 1; + printf("\n CPU cycles/packet=%.2F (total cycles=" - "%"PRIu64" / total RX packets=%"PRIu64") at %"PRIu64 - " MHz Clock\n", - (double) fwd_cycles / total_recv, - fwd_cycles, total_recv, - (uint64_t)(rte_get_tsc_hz() / CYC_PER_MHZ)); + "%"PRIu64" / total %s packets=%"PRIu64") at %" + PRIu64" MHz Clock\n", ((double) fwd_cycles / + (ingress ? total_recv : total_xmit)), + fwd_cycles, cur_fwd_eng->fwd_mode_name, + (ingress ? total_recv : total_xmit), + (uint64_t)(rte_get_tsc_hz() / CYC_PER_MHZ)); + } #endif } -- 2.7.4