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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2006 09:17:48 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, scottl@samsco.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons/apm apm_saver.c src/sys/i386/bios apm.c apm.h 
Message-ID:  <7545.1148627868@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2006 22:06:11 MDT." <20060525.220611.74708877.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20060525.220611.74708877.imp@bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh writes:

>At the very least, we should mandate that timeouts are a non-sleepable
>event.  Sleeping just doesn't work there.  taskqueues, I'm less sure
>of, since short sleeps there work, but do degrade performance.  I like
>this idea.

A couple of years back I did a survey of our timeout callbacks because
I was worried about this issue in the context of SMPng.

The majority are "mostly OK" (there is a lot of memory allocations with
M_WAITOK) and a few are just plain wrong.

It's certainly a fixable problem.

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