Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932186AbVKOBEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:04:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932266AbVKOBEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:04:08 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:1997 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932186AbVKOBEH (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:04:07 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: discuss@x86-64.org, george@mvista.com Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH 13/39] NLKD/x86-64 - time adjustment Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:05:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43720DAE.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051112204428.GA14733@midnight.suse.cz> <43792DFF.1000300@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <43792DFF.1000300@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511150205.25339.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 522 Lines: 13 On Tuesday 15 November 2005 01:38, George Anzinger wrote: > Doesn't this depend on the atomic nature of the 64-bit read? If it is really two 32-bit reads one > would need to do extra work to make sure the two parts belong together. Please take a look at the Subject. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/