Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Karim Yaghmour]

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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