On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:05:47PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> I'm sure the version with 'volatile' will also be broken then. Sounds
> like the right answer is to fix the locking.
But wish avoiding locking at all since this may delay the time stamp
recording. We (the LinuxPPS guys) niticed that just a single
instruction my degrade the time setting about 50%!
I avoid locking just using a pointer and setting it to a dummy
structure when not used... is that wrong? :-o
Ciao,
Rodolfo
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