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Date:      Sun, 25 May 2003 21:17:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4GB limit with netstat
Message-ID:  <20030525211150.S67784@prg.traveller.cz>

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>   I've forgotten the orginaly discussion last year - just how expensive
> is it again to do a locked 64bit update on x86? If it is less than say
> 8x the time to do a 32bit increment, then we should probably just bite
> the bullet and do it for the few counters where it makes sense (input
> and output bytes and packets).

The price for locked 64bit update was really high. I can't find my
measurements from that time, but it was more on the scale of 100 times
more expensive.

-- 
Michal Mertl
mime@traveller.cz



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