If kernel provided the event timestamp, then use it, else fall back to gettimeofday. This needs a recent kernel with netfilter: conntrack: add conntrack event timestamp and net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_timestamp sysctl set to 1. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- src/conntrack.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conntrack.c b/src/conntrack.c index 52ba4ac5e44f..22058736b374 100644 --- a/src/conntrack.c +++ b/src/conntrack.c @@ -1914,6 +1914,26 @@ static char *get_progname(uint32_t portid) return NULL; } +static void event_print_timestamp(const struct nf_conntrack *ct) +{ + struct timeval tv; + + /* nfct_attr_is_set returns -1 if attr is unknown */ + if (nfct_attr_is_set(ct, ATTR_TIMESTAMP_EVENT) > 0) { + uint64_t event_ts = nfct_get_attr_u64(ct, ATTR_TIMESTAMP_EVENT); + static const uint64_t ns_per_s = 1000000000ul; + static const uint64_t ns_to_usec = 1000ul; + + tv.tv_sec = event_ts / ns_per_s; + + tv.tv_usec = (event_ts % ns_per_s) / ns_to_usec; + } else { + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + } + + printf("[%-.8ld.%-.6ld]\t", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); +} + static int event_cb(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *data) { struct nfgenmsg *nfh = mnl_nlmsg_get_payload(nlh); @@ -1969,9 +1989,7 @@ static int event_cb(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *data) op_flags = NFCT_OF_SHOW_LAYER3; if (output_mask & _O_TMS) { if (!(output_mask & _O_XML)) { - struct timeval tv; - gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); - printf("[%-.8ld.%-.6ld]\t", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); + event_print_timestamp(ct); } else op_flags |= NFCT_OF_TIME; } -- 2.45.2