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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:35:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: review: callout patch
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001127113502.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001127192558.897B3BA7A@io.yi.org>

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On 27-Nov-00 Jake Burkholder wrote:
>> 
>> On 26-Nov-00 Jake Burkholder wrote:
>> > 
>> > This patch makes most of sys/kern/* sources use callout_reset for
>> > registering callouts rather than timeout(9).  This should greatly
>> > reduce the use of the fixed size callfree allocator pool.  Currently
>> > we panic when it runs out.
>> > 
>> > This was motivated by NetBSD, who have completely removed timeout(9)
>> > from their kernel.
>> > 
>> > Please review it.
>> 
>> Looks good to me. :)
>> 
>> Having a callout.9 manpage to go along with it would be nice as well. :)
> 
> timeout.9 exists, its just not linked.

Ah, I had thought timeout(9) didn't document those.  Well, then updating
timeout(9) and adding appropriate MLINK's would be cool. :)

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