On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:10:47AM -0600, Niels Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Well, I wrote a simple kernel module which just increments a shared
> global
> > counter a million times per processor in parallel, and compared it with
> > the statctr which would be incremented a million times per processor in
> > parallel..
>
> I suspected that. Would it be possible to do the test on the real
> counters?
Yep, I am gonna run a benchmark after changing some stat counters in the
Kernel. That should let us know if there are performance gains or otherwise..
Kiran
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