doc: add statistics read frequency to ixgbe guide
authorHarry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:29:39 +0000 (14:29 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:41:23 +0000 (18:41 +0100)
commit125f6edbe8f39f48dc26e2f16d36dce8c5305657
tree4a269a7fbf6bd4dc72257b6ce252a878ace0f170
parent851b2c86bb15c60b50e0faac1e2121b62c3ecc0a
doc: add statistics read frequency to ixgbe guide

This patch adds a note to the ixgbe PMD guide, stating
the minimum time that statistics must be polled from
the hardware in order to avoid register values becoming
saturated and "sticking" to the max value.

Reported-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin@intel.com>
doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst