Re: fast 64 bit "atomic" x86 counters

[kuznet]

Hello!

> Which reminds me.
> Let me know if this "cheap 63bit atomic increment" works...

Well, it should work and it is fast enough.

Only why to program in assembly, if you may get even 256 bit counters
plus lots of another information including packet/data rates etc. with
trivial daemonlet?

Actually, 64 bit counters in ipchains are pretty useless
redundancy too.

Alexey Kuznetsov
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