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    SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

    Hello Roman,

    Roman Zippel wrote:
    > An additional comment about the order of events. What you're doing in
    > lockless_reserve is bogus anyway. There is no single correct time to
    > write into the event. By artificially synchronizing event order and event
    > time you only cheat yourself. You either take it into account during
    > postprocessing that events can be interrupted or the time stamp doesn't
    > seem to be that important, but there is nothing you can do during the
    > recording of the event except of completely disabling interrupts.

    Correct and like I said before, we are dropping the lockless scheme.
    Ergo, disabling interrupts we will.

    Karim
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