On 06/18/10 14:08, Robert Watson wrote: > The only reservation I have, really, is that 64-bit writes are non-atomic on > i386 and other 32-bit architectures (or, at least, I think they are). This > means DPCPU_SUM may encounter non-atomicity rather than just staleness in the > values it reads as it iterates. That said, we should probably use 64-bit > anyway, because 32-bit counters are gauche. :-)
What is about introducing 64-bit atomic counters? Cheers, :g _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
