From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 04:33:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Scalability enhancements for gettimeofday
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>>>>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:08:10 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:

  Christoph> Here is the patch with the use of cmpxchg to update
  Christoph> last_itc:

You're missing my point: if read_seqretry() causes a retry,
get_offset() better had NOT modified the global time-offset.

	--david