diff --git a/src/libs/compat/freebsd11_network/compat/sys/counter.h b/src/libs/compat/freebsd11_network/compat/sys/counter.h
index d4133a46e3..3f0dd04701 100644
--- a/src/libs/compat/freebsd11_network/compat/sys/counter.h
+++ b/src/libs/compat/freebsd11_network/compat/sys/counter.h
@@ -1,12 +1,85 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2017 Haiku Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright 2017-2018, Haiku, Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
  */
 #ifndef _FBSD_COMPAT_SYS_COUNTER_H_
 #define _FBSD_COMPAT_SYS_COUNTER_H_
 
+#include <machine/atomic.h>
+#include <sys/malloc.h>
 
-typedef uint64_t *counter_u64_t;
+
+/* FreeBSD does not use atomics: it has a per-CPU data storage structure
+ * that it adds to whenever someone calls add(), and then only locks and
+ * coalesces it whenever fetch() is called. This means that on some
+ * architectures (e.g. x86_64), adding to the counter is one instruction.
+ *
+ * However, this seems to be for the most part overengineering, as its
+ * only uses seem to be statistical counting in semi-performance-critical paths.
+ * Axel noted in #12328 that there's a potential way to implement FreeBSD's
+ * method on Haiku using cpu_ent, but that atomics were "perfectly fine",
+ * so we will go with that for now.
+ */
+
+
+typedef uint64_t* counter_u64_t;
+
+
+static inline counter_u64_t
+counter_u64_alloc(int wait)
+{
+	return (counter_u64_t)_kernel_malloc(sizeof(uint64_t), wait | M_ZERO);
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_u64_free(counter_u64_t c)
+{
+	_kernel_free(c);
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_u64_add(counter_u64_t c, int64_t v)
+{
+	atomic_add64((int64*)c, v);
+}
+
+
+static inline uint64_t
+counter_u64_fetch(counter_u64_t c)
+{
+	return atomic_get64((int64*)c);
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_u64_zero(counter_u64_t c)
+{
+	atomic_set64((int64*)c, 0);
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_enter()
+{
+	// unneeded; counters are atomic
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_exit()
+{
+	// unneeded; counters are atomic
+}
+
+
+static inline void
+counter_u64_add_protected(counter_u64_t c, int64_t v)
+{
+	// counters are atomic
+	counter_u64_add(c, v);
+}
 
 
 #endif