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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:13:19 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Scalable Statistics Counters
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> Here is a RFC for Scalable Statistics Counters.

> Initial results of micro benchmarking on 3 cpus showed a 65% reduction
> in cpu cycles used to update the proposed statistics counter, over
> global non atomic counter.

I'd use it, if there were a really easy interface to the thing.

This would include both an interface to automagically use it from
the routines where we increase variables to some automagic reporting
in /proc ;)

(it'd be so cool if we could just start using a statistic variable
through some macro and it'd be automatically declared and visible
in /proc ;))

regards,

Rik
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