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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:39:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        MULHUIJZEN@PZH.NL, rbezuide@oskar.dev.nanoteq.co.za
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads
Message-ID:  <200001181139.GAA25392@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote:
> > >OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)),
> > I
> > >was able to reproduce this.  The initial threads last active time was
> > >not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative
> > computations
> > >of the threads timeslice depending on what time of day it was.  Funny
> > >thing was that I added this change several times, but each time I
> > somehow
> > >convinced myself that it wasn't needed.
> > 
> > >Try this patch - you may have to hand apply it as my sources are not
> > >yet up to date with the last round of changes that Jason made.
> > 
> > >Dan Eischen
> > >eischen@vigrid.com
> 
> Will this patch be patched back to RELENG_3 too ?? We have quite a few
> applications that use threads :)

In a week or two.  I just committed the fix to -current, and the rule
is to wait a week or two before MFC.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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