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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping
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Bruce M Simpson wrote:

>Here's a patch against 5.3 to add a per-instance switch which allows
>the user to specify if captured packets should be timestamped (and,
>if so, whether microtime() or the faster but less accurate
>getmicrotime() call should be used).
>  
>
I like the idea (I've been using a hack to call getmicrotime() in bpf in 
my own kernels), but I wonder if it would be better as a sysctl?  Then 
it wouldn't require changes to libpcap and/or tcpdump, and would work 
with any application.

Thanks,
Guy

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