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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:03:02 +0300 Carolina Jubran wrote:
> Additionally, I wanted to mention another relevant use case that wasn=E2=
=80=99t=20
> brought up earlier: fwctl can expose event records tagged with raw cycle=
=20
> counter timestamps. When the device is in free-running mode, correlating=
=20
> those with host time becomes difficult unless user space has access to=20
> both cycle and system time snapshots.

Okay, so DPDK and DOCA, got it.