Subject: Re: kern/1515 - Changing netstat variables to 64 bit
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/09/1999 18:02:22
On Jun 9, 2:56pm, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/1515 - Changing netstat variables to 64 bit
| On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:33:29 -0700
| Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> wrote:
|
| > Indeed, going from 32 to 64 bit counters should add one or two instructions
| > every time you increase the counter (add to the accumulator). I don't see
| > how that can suck performance so badly.
|
| Yah... I don't think it's that much of an issue, really.
|
| BSD/OS has u_int64_t counters, too, so why not just go for it...
|
Yup we should just do it.
christos