Re: 64bit ticks, was Re: Changing p_swtime and td_slptime to ticks

Jeff Roberson writes:

Is there a good reason for not making ticks 64bit? math involving this
value is relatively infrequent. Bruce? Any comments? It'd sure let us
forget all of these counter wrapping problems.

Making ticks 64 bits on 32-bit architectures means that updates to it
will not be atomic.

-GAWollman

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