Re: please merge 64-bit jiffy patches.

bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:12:28 +0200


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:07:49AM +0000, Tim Schmielau wrote:

> Rik van Riel correctly suggested to merge it in 2.5 first. I have a
> forward-ported version, but it has a minor locking issue on UP.

I think that would be right. It touches a lot of code.

> Albert Cahalan suggested to get rid of locking at all by only updating the
> high word from the timer interupt. I will try to code this on the weekend.

Smart.

> I'm sorry I had no time for lobbying the merge in the last month.

Anything I can do to help, just let me know. Right now I am actually facing
costs because of this issue, so I am very much in favour of saving those
costs 500 days from now :-)

Regards,

bert

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