Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: How to read xtime | Date | Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:47:39 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Umm if you can write to it atomically, that solves everything. > And I think I have the (x86) solution.... cmpxchg8b. > > It's only an issue on SMP, which means it only matters on Pentium > and up (linux deosn't support SMP 486's, right?), so we have cmpxchg8b.
Wrong alas.
Alan
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