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should we use atomic instructions to manipulate vmstats.v_wire_count?

From:	"Nicolas Thery" <nthery@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:44:25 +0100

Hello,

I noticed that vmstats.v_wire_count is incremented and decremented w/o
protection.  In contrast, atomic instructions (from <atomic.h>) are
used in freebsd.

Is it a bug in dfly or is it intentional?

Cheers,
Nicolas

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