Subject: Re: vmstat -i vs. evcnt
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/22/2005 21:06:00
Chuck Silvers wrote:
> here's a diff which allows vmstat and systat to not need the kernel symbols
> for the pre-evcnt interrupt-counting:
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/chs/hp700/diff.vmstat
>
> this allows us to remove those kernel symbols on platforms that do all their
> interrupt counting via evcnts.
>
> anyone see anything else needed for this?
Looks good at a glance, but I wouldn't have guessed the diffs would be
that big. A better "fix" would be to convert all ports to using event
counters, but this will do for now :-)
Simon.
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