Subject: Re: major revision of kernel 'evcnt' interfaces.
To: Erik Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2000 13:26:29
Erik Fair <fair@clock.org> writes:
> How often is this stuff supposed to be invoked, e.g. would I use it
> to count packets in a network interface?
it could, certainly. (there are other places to count that
information already, though.)
its original purpose was to count interrupts, which should give you
some idea.
cgd
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