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Subject: Why call ETHER_BPF_MTAP on Tx when not tracing
From: Vijay Singh <vijju.singh@gmail.com>
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I see that BPFIF_LOCK() in bpf_mtap() is getting invoked, even though
I am not tracing the interface. Is this expected?

-vijay

PS: I am running 8.2.