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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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