On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 23:49 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > Whats so hard about 64bit counters on 32bit machines?
>
> Not hard, but not trivial either.
>
> >
> > > expensive to handle in particular because these counters are used in
> > > performance critical hotpaths.
> >
> > The expensive overhead is a single "adcl" instruction.
> >
>
> Assuming a reader do not care of reading garbage yes, while carry is not
> yet propagated.
Readers and writers are serialized via desc->lock.
Thanks,
tglx
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