> > It's simply impossible to implement cmpxchg() in the general case on
> > parisc.  This was hashed out in great detail recently ...
>
> That's a bug in the time_interpolator implementation.  Fixable, I assume,
> by whacking a spinlock into struct time_interpolator.

The cmpxchg is already a bit painful if you have a lot of cpus (and a bunch
of users that call gettimeofday() incessantly).  A spinlock would most likely
be even worse (wouldn't it?).

-Tony
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