netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sfc: skip ptp allocations on secondary interfaces

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Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:48:15 -0500
From:   Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
        Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: skip ptp allocations on secondary interfaces

On 2016-12-15 3:31 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Rather than allocating efx_ptp_data, a buffer, a workqueue, etc., and then
> ultimately deciding not to call ptp_clock_register() for non-primary
> interfaces, just exit out of efx_ptp_prober() earlier. Saves a little
> memory and speeds up init and teardown slightly.
>
> CC: linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
> CC: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
> CC: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>

Self-Nak on this one. Talking to Bert off-list, he pointed out that the 
driver uses the PTP structure allocated here for the secondary interface 
to do internal time-stamping and the like. While it might be ideal not 
to intermingle PTP structs with non-PTP work, disabling this right now 
is obviously a non-starter.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com