On 27/06/2018 13:13, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> Given the code runs under big qemu lock anyway the atomics are not >> needed, so we could drop just them. I left them in nevertheless because >> >> (a) we might want try run the code in a thread instead of using a timer, >> and >> (b) I was too lazy to rewrite the code to drop the atomics. >> >> I'd prefer to keep option (a) ... > > Well, experimented with that a bit. > > As long as the core audio system runs using qemu timers too moving to a > thread doesn't buy us much as any latency spikes in qemu will hit us no > matter what. > > So, that point is moot. I'll go drop the atomics.
Try stat64. It should work just fine as it's made exactly for this kind of simple counter. Paolo
