Yeah, I ended up doing this. Would be nice to have access to a "double" vs 
"u64" type, but using vlib_set_counter works well enough for me.

Thanks,
Chris.

> On Nov 13, 2020, at 5:16 PM, otr...@employees.org wrote:
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Aboslutely. The periodic gauge callback is purely there for sources that 
> don't provide the counters themselves.
> E.g. used for polling mempry heaps, free buffers and so on.
> 
> You can just use a normal counter (counter.c) for your high frequency gauge.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ole
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2020, at 20:20, Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I have need to track a frequently updated value (pps rate during congestion 
>> control), but I need this to be close to very frequently updated (basically 
>> whenever I change the value which is based on RTT). It seems the current 
>> gauge code you supply a callback which updates the counter (at a default of 
>> every 10 seconds).
>> 
>> Is there something about the scalar stat that's different from the counter 
>> stat that requires this infrequent updating? Is it possible to "register" a 
>> scalar state that I can update very frequently instead directly (instead of 
>> supplying a callback)?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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