On Jan 16, 2008 6:56 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you really want an seqlock free algorithm (I _do_ want this for > tracing!) :) maybe going in the RCU direction could help (I refer to my > RCU-based 32-to-64 bits lockless timestamp counter extension, which > could be turned into the clocksource updater).
Yea. After our earlier discussion and talking w/ Steven, I'm taking a swing at this now. The lock-free method still doesn't apply to the update_wall_time function, but does work fine for the monotonic cycle uses. I'll send a patch for review as soon as I get things building. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
