On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:48:16 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FWIW, I liked your idea of making the cookie 64-bit with: > > - 32-bit cpu number, > - 32-bit per-CPU free running counter. > > This is simple, works on 32-bit archs, and it does not overflow as often > as time LSB because it counts execution contexts. I have no problem with implementing that. But Linus had his concerns. If he's OK with that version, then I'll go with that. -- Steve