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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:03:00 +1030

> Now, I posted a benchmark patch before for archs to test.  I'm interested
> in Sparc64.  Does any arch win from using multiple counters?  PowerPC has
> soft interrupt disable, so that solution wins over atomic_long_t for them.

I'll get you some sparc64 numbers.