Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:07:18 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, <arch@FreeBSD.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Subject: Re: 64 bit counters Message-ID: <20020102080550.B11165-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011231123913.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > On 31-Dec-01 Michal Mertl wrote: > > I've almost finished the changes to implement interface counters with > > atomic_t which is either 32 bit or 64 bit. I'll finish it anyway. It can > > at least be converted to atomic_add_int (instead of my WIP name > > atomic_add_max and friends) and it will help someone later to be able to > > get rid of giant protection. I may be wrong even with this - well if > > that's going to be the case and otherwise there will be no use for my > > changes, they can always be forgotten. I could take it as practice lesson > > on hacking kernel sources :-). > > I really need to fix the atomic(9) API to use sizeof() instead of explicit > types like Bruce wants. :) This will be easier when there is only one size :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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