Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: interrupt counts | From | Matti E Aarnio <> | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:11:12 +0300 (EET DST) |
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[ while talking about counters that wrap too soon.. ]
Mikael Abrahamsson replies: > Matti E Aarnio wrote: > > HOWEVER, I might want to have it as a configuration option. > > At low-level 386/25 (my home machine) I am entirely happy > > with 32-bit counters. > > > > bool 'Do you want unwrappable (64 bit) network counters ?' \ > > CONFIG_LONG_NETWORK_COUNTERS > > I dont know how much handling 64bit instead of 32 bit decereases > performance, but this is definately an option.
If you look deep down, at 32-bit machines it will take twice as much work as native size counter handling does. At Alphas I would use 64-bit longs anyway :-)
/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
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