Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andi Kleen writes: > > > Also I assume Atsushi-san did the patch because he saw a real problem? > > Yes, one which I also saw on PPC. The compiler (gcc-4) emits loads > for jiffies, jiffies64 and wall_jiffies before storing the incremented > jiffies64 value back. > What was the effect of that? - 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/
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