"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> writes:
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> replace them;
> 2) Delete lock. The change to the protected data has no nested cases.
> In addition, the result is for performance data collection, so it’s
> unnecessary to add such lock. 

Not sure that's a good idea. People expect their performance counts
to be accurate too. You could possibly use atomics though, but 
when there are multiple counters updated the spinlock will be likely
faster.

-Andi
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