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Subject: Re: [PATCH] monotonic seqlock for cyclone timer
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:58, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Replace read/write lock used for cyclone timer monotonic_lock with seqlock.
> Similar to locking used on xtime and monotonic_lock in timers/timer_tsc.c
> 
> It builds and runs, but I don't have hardware with cyclone support to test.
> Not a big deal (yet) since only hangcheck timer uses monotonic clock so far.

I use to run w/ almost the exact same patch on cyclone hardware. Looks
good to me.

thanks for sending this out
-john