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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:52:02 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] enable uptime display > 497 days on 32 bit (1/2)
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Tim Schmielau wrote:

> rediffed to 2.4.19-pre2 and three micro-optimizations:
>
>   move jiffies_hi etc. to same cacheline as jiffies
>     (suggested by George Anzinger)
>   avoid turning off interrupts (suggested by Andreas Dilger)
>   use unlikely() (suggested by Andreas Dilger)
>
> As no other comments turned up, this will go to Marcelo RSN.

Please merge with Linus first, otherwise you'll loose this
feature once you'll upgrade to 2.6 ...

> (wondered why noone vetoed this as overkill...)

I guess sneaking it past Linus will be the real test ;)

cheers,

Rik
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