per-cpu statistics (Re: CVS commit: src)

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

[ moved from source-changes ]

> On Apr 6, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:31:28AM +0000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> >> Log Message:
> >> Change IP stats from a structure to an array of uint64_t's.
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> > What's the intent and benefit of these changes, out of interest?
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> These counters are going to become per-CPU in a short while (I  
> actually have that work done in a separate tree already).  As part of  
> that work, I wanted to add an ABI-stable way for LKMs or other things  
> that are not the guts of the netinet implementation to increment these  
> stats.  Having to address a stat as an offset into a structure is  
> cumbersome for this; using an index is much better.

will it be something generic enough to replace evcnt?

YAMAMOTO Takashi

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> -- thorpej