> Since it's so cheap, is there any real reason to replace all those
> counters with u64's and add support for printing them?
Many counters are 32-bits, and IMO that's fine.
I have applications that read many hundreds of 32-bit counters every
few minutes, and the overflow is trivially handled there.
In the kernel, there is perhaps the odd place a 64-bit counter might
be necessary, but certainly, most counters don't need to be.
-cw
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