, and the performance gains of
per-cpu variables are negligable.  By contrast, the counters weren't
safe against cpu off/online operations, and its not worth the effort
to make them so (other than to turn them into plain globals).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from be3b5d1be053ccb41e91fa5a6f43ef5db301357d commit)
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