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From: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:22:39 -0700

> So at least, for the _current_ implimentations, this should have no
> performance impacts.

Regardless, I think this is something that userspace _can_
take care of reasonably and therefore has no buisness in the
kernel.

We do not duplicate functionality that is already possible
_unless_ it is incredibly difficult for userland to do so.
And in this case I do not think it is difficult for userland
to interpret the counters in the way you want it to.

So, major NACK on this stuff.