Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Guy Harris, sie wrote: On Sep 8, 2004, at 2:26 AM, 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

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Matthew Luckie
This is probably a pointless optimization, as you probably relatively rarely have multiple BPF devices bound to the same interface receiving the bulk of the packets (as opposed to some daemon with a filter that passes only the packets it's interested in), but would there be any advantage to

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Add ioctl to disable bpf timestamping

2004-09-25 Thread Guy Harris
Matthew Luckie wrote: The motivation for this patch was to obtain something resembling the timestamp closest to when a packet I generated and transmitted hit the wire, to infer a more accurate RTT with an associated response packet. That's certainly a worthy goal, but the patch might not help