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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:11:54 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: per-cpu counters (Re: svn commit: r190967 - head/sys/netinet) 
Message-ID:  <30873.1239549114@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:28:48 %2B0100." <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904121525540.19879@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904121525540.19879@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Wats
on writes:

>I have a project along these lines in progress, and will post the proposal to 
>arch@ once I've finished prototyping it.  In particular, it provides common 
>implementations of "reset" and "report" in order to expose a single userspace 
>version of the structure via sysctl.

Please don't export them via sysctl.

Export them via mmap(2) like we already do with the disk I/O statistics.

That way monitoring the counters becomes a no-syscall operation.

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