I think this is the best thing to do for i386. No cost, all benefits.
However, I think you could use the timer interface. Just make a
'check-wrap' function and associate each 'struct _longcounter' with a
timer. The 'timeout' is different for each counter so it should scale
better than a single linked list.
astor
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