On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:29:05 +0100 Sad Clouds <[email protected]> wrote:
> A better way would be for cpu to have its own counter, which is > incremented until it reaches a certain threshold. At the threshold, the > global counter is incremented by the local counter. > > It all depends on the logic of what the counter is supposed to do. But > it doesn't have to be very expensive, i.e. if it's just a statistics > counter, you can do the above trick to reduce contention. Another way would be for the cpu+global values to only be assembled when statistics are requested, unless there's active code taking that global counter into consideration frequently. -- Matt
