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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: option for IEEE1588
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:51:17 +0200
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Hi all,

We have a compile-time option for IEEE1588 feature.
It means we must know wether the application will need it before
compiling DPDK. Linux distributions must make this choice when packaging.

Does it make sense to transform it into a runtime option?
Is the performance drawback so big?