Re: Heads up: moving some uvmexp stat to being per-cpu

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Martin Husemann wrote:

> I have one stupid question: why can't we leave the size of the counters
> at 32bit on a per arch basis?

Or use 64-bit counters but just update the lower 32-bits of them.  Is 
there some danger that a 32-bit counter will overflow?

> At a quick glance the sparc code looked v9 only, so will need some work.

Although there are problems with the SPARC code, it is v8 code.

Eduardo