Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:37:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:37:21 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:64224 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:37:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:09:36 +0530 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai To: Niels Christiansen , arjanv@redhat.com Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC] [PATCH] Scalable Statistics Counters Message-ID: <20011207170936.I20583@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nchr@us.ibm.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:10:47AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Niels, Arjan On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:10:47AM -0600, Niels Christiansen wrote: > > > Well, I wrote a simple kernel module which just increments a shared > global > > counter a million times per processor in parallel, and compared it with > > the statctr which would be incremented a million times per processor in > > parallel.. > > I suspected that. Would it be possible to do the test on the real > counters? Yep, I am gonna run a benchmark after changing some stat counters in the Kernel. That should let us know if there are performance gains or otherwise.. Kiran -- Ravikiran G Thirumalai Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs, Bangalore. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/