Matt Domsch wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30:51PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
From: Konstantin Baydarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Atomics are a lot more efficient and neat than using a lock.
per_cpu variables are a lot more efficient and neat than using locks
for simple statistics. no cache line bouncing to increment the
counter. Are these read so often that atomics are really better?
I agree, I'll put this in the plan for the future. I don't have time to
do it at this point, but the changes made in these patches should make
it easy to change in the future.
Thanks,
-corey
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