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 -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Device Driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX programming phone: +39 349 2432127 - 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/
