Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] qede: Add driver support for PTP.

[Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 03:08:11PM +0000, Mintz, Yuval wrote:
> While it surely answers my question, I still don't think of an event
> reoccurring 16 times a second as optimization-crucial.
> Is there any reasonable scenario where the interval is
> significantly smaller, or is it merely some theoretical specification?

Its theoretical, like ipv6 addresses.

> [I'd like to see the machine that can handle the 2^(-128) sec interval]

;)
 
> Again, I don't see how we can achieve that given that qede has to check
> Its internal state to check whether it's right to utilize the ptp-related hw
> configurations and only then call the qed function. As qed can't do it for
> qede, we can't directly map qed's function into the ptp_clock_info,
> but rather have to call it after taking qede's state-lock.

Fair enough.

Thanks,
Richard