From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:07:07 +0100 (CET)

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> On a side note, is it perhaps possible to use jiffies-like magic to
> also have 64-bit counters on 32-bit, or is that still too expensive?

I think there might still be atomicity issues.

We've been telling people to poll periodically in userspace to avoid
these problems, but that has limitations as network speeds increase.
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