[PATCH 0/2] cpustat: use atomic operations to read/update stats

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 13:50 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Argh!! at what cost? 64bit atomics are like expensive. Wouldn't
> adding
> > a seqlock be saner?
> 
> Not sure. This requires a spinlock in the write side which is called
> from
> fast path like the timer interrupt.

A single spinlock is _way_ cheaper than a ton of cmpxchg8b()s to update
a few variables.