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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:33:12 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: bounce buffer usage
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> | +                       bounced_write++;
> | +               } else
> | +                       bounced_read++;
> |         }
>
> Is this the only place that kstat (kernel_stat) counters
> are not SMP safe...?

No, but we don't particularly care about that.  If you care
about making the statistics SMP safe, you probably also want
to make them CPU local so the cacheline isn't bounced around
all the time ;)

cheers,

Rik
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