Subject: Re: major revision of kernel 'evcnt' interfaces.
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2000 14:56:42
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > struct evcnt {
> > u_int64_t ev_count; /* how many have occurred */
> /|\
> |
>
> This may be sub-optimal on many architectures. On vax, for example, it
> generates a bunch of extra insn's. If this is incremented often it
> would be not-so-good.
Sounds like it's time to add a new pattern to vax.md!! :-)
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