[PATCH] net/af_xdp: add Rx metadata and dynamic timestamping support

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:10:27 -0700
Joshua Washington <joshwash at google.com> wrote:

> These are all very good points for ensuring an airtight abstraction.
> However, I'd like to note that neither of the kernel-bound PMD
> interfaces (pcap, AF_PACKET) have support for the `read_clock` op. I
> am not certain of the reason for this, but I suspect it's because
> ethtool IOCTLs already cover that functionality. This patch's
> implementation follows the other implementations pretty closely,
> differing only in how the timestamp is extracted.

Yes, that needs to be fixed :-)