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Michal Mertl
mime at traveller.cz
Sat Jul 29 23:50:54 UTC 2006
Michal Mertl wrote:
> Paul Allen wrote:
> > Surely all you need to do is a cheap crit_enter,crit_exit
> > while updating the 64-bit per cpu counters. and on
> > a 64-bit arch you skip the crit_enter,crit_exit.
>
> Critical_enter/exit seem to be quite lightweight (single
> read/modify/write of a variable).
One more question. Why do you say that crit_* can be avoided on 64-bit
arch? If the reason was that "increment of a 64 bit number is one
operation there" it probably is not true - as somebody already stated,
some instruction sets don't allow atomic increment of a memory location.
Michal
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