On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:43:13PM -0600, David Young wrote:
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> 2) Split all counters into two parts: high-order 32 bits, low-order 32
> bits. It's only necessary to touch the high-order part when the
> low-order part rolls over, so in effect you split the counters into
> write-often (hot) and write-rarely (cold) parts. Cram together the
> cold parts in cachelines. Cram together the hot parts in cachelines.
> Only the hot parts change that often, so the ordinary footprint of
> counters in the cache is cut almost in half.
That means have to have special code to read them in order to avoid
having 'silly' values.
David
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