Matt Domsch wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30:51PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
>   
>> From: Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@ru.mvista.com>
>>
>> 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.

Thanks,

-corey
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