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.
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