Re: Locking in disk(9) api

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) writes:

>[...]  Would it not
>make sense to use the same lock to protect the stats themselves from
>being updated while they are being read (especially now that sysctl is
>used to read them instead of kvm)?

You would need to fetch this lock also on the producer side, adding
some overhead (the driver lock used now is essentially free because
you need it to protect other private data). Also, this would be one
global lock for all stats.

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