On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:07 AM, David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:49:14PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote: > > I have a fairly large but mostly simple patch which changes the > > stats collected in uvmexp for faults, intrs, softs, syscalls, and > > traps from 32 bit to 64 bits and puts them in cpu_data (in > > cpu_info). This makes more accurate and a little cheaper to update > > on 64bit systems. > > Would this be a good opportunity to retire the sysctl that returns the > non-ABI-stable uvmexp, or perhaps change its name to indicate that > it's not stable/supported? > > -- > David A. Holland > dholl...@netbsd.org >
Hi, in my humble opinion, retiring the exported uvmexp would be a good move, it carries counters for highly page-out-algorithm specific events, that might change if those algorithms are tuned changed, and such changes shouldn't break the ABI. Lars -- Mystische Erklärungen: Die mystischen Erklärungen gelten für tief; die Wahrheit ist, dass sie noch nicht einmal oberflächlich sind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche [ Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft Buch 3, 126 ]
