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Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> I'd suggest to add timestamping support to the trace infrastructure
> for this purpose so you can collect more accurate numbers of chain
> traversal, this can be hidden under static_key.

This might work for nft and iptables-nft, but not for iptables-legacy
(not sure its a requirement) or OVS.