| Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:05:07 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [profile] amortize atomic hit count increments |
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William, any reason not to fully per-cpu the profile buffer and then only traverse the array when the user attempts to capture the counters?
Then we can undo the atomics altogether, as well as the cacheline traffic, for the extremely common case.
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