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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:55:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Scalability enhancements for gettimeofday
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>>>>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:24:45 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:

  Christoph> How would you like the following patch? It simply uses a
  Christoph> static variable to insure that the ITC value used in
  Christoph> get_offset never goes backward.

Eh, you need to worry about races.  There can be a timer-tick while
get_offset is running.

	--david