On 03/08/17 10:03, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
First and foremost there is general kernel scalability. Certain counters
and most locks are purely managed with atomic operations. An atomic
operation grabs the entire cacheline with the particular variable (64
bytes in total) in exclusive mode.

Isn't problem of atomic counters was solved by counter(9) framework?
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