Subject: Re: major revision of kernel 'evcnt' interfaces.
To: Jason R Thorpe , Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2000 22:25:27
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 02:56:42PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
>  > >      struct evcnt {
>  > >              u_int64_t       ev_count;      /* how many have occurred */
>  > 		  /|\
>  > 		   |
>  > 
>  > This may be sub-optimal on many architectures. On vax, for example, it
>  > generates a bunch of extra insn's. If this is incremented often it 
>  > would be not-so-good.
> 
> Sounds like it's time to add a new pattern to vax.md!!  :-)

I just tried... I think this applies to m68k as well.

	-is