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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 3/4] net/mlx5e: Add HW timestamping (TS)
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:18:06 +0100
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 03:08:18PM +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Agree, but what will happen if the calculated period is too rapid ?
> shouldn't we have some kind of minimum ?

If the period is shorter than you can handle, then the clock will
overflow and is therefore unusable.

Thanks,
Richard