> However, I have some concerns on this matter.
> Our hardware provides bulk reading of the modules temperature, means
> I can get all inputs by one hardware request, which is important optimization.
> Reading each module individually will be resulted in huge overhead and will
> require maybe some cashing of temperature inputs.
Well, you can cache the SFP calibration values, and the 4 limit
values. To get an actually temperature you need to read 2 bytes from
the SFP module. I don't see why that would be expensive. You talk to
the firmware over PCIe right? So you have lots of bandwidth.
Andrew
