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Re: [Xen-devel] performance counters

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] performance counters
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:21:33 +0000
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On 16/3/07 08:17, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> It has the added benefit of avoiding cacheline bouncing.
>> 
>> It just needs someone to implement this improvement. ;-)
> 
> I'll take care of this, but it may take me a few days to get to it. But I
> also think there's no need for rush here.

Indeed. The counters aren't even compiled by default. It may be, however,
that per-cpu non-atomic counters are cheap enough to enable all the time.
We'll have to see.

 -- Keir


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