Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@gmail.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/10/2008 10:24:58
On Feb 10, 2008, at 6:04 AM, Masao Uebayashi wrote:

>> Log Message:
>> Disable the event counters by default, since they create terrible  
>> cache
>> behaviour on MP systems.
>
> I'm thinking if putting all evcnt::ev_counter into a single segment
> (and make evcnt::ev_counter a pointer to there) would help cache
> efficency.


Probably not since you still need to access the pointer and then you are
adding another access on top of that.