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Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:38 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management
Message-ID:  <4C7EA696.3030901@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikcHn-SXk7Rx6NcSQKtBh-Df-g2pzeU%2BzHor9Vy@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4C7A5C28.1090904@FreeBSD.org>	<20100830110932.23425932@ernst.jennejohn.org>	<4C7B82EA.2040104@FreeBSD.org>	<20100830121148.11926306@ernst.jennejohn.org>	<20100831102918.4f5404cc@ernst.jennejohn.org>	<4C7CC1DE.1080907@FreeBSD.org>	<4C7E2E8A.3030709@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTikcHn-SXk7Rx6NcSQKtBh-Df-g2pzeU%2BzHor9Vy@mail.gmail.com>

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Brandon Gooch wrote:
> This latest patch causes an interrupt storm with the HPET timer on my
> system. The machine took about 8 minutes to boot and bring me to a
> login prompt. System interactivity (i.e. input from keyboard, output
> on console) was fine, but after checking the output of `systat vmstat
> -1`, I saw the interrupt rate on each HPET entry was over 120k!
> 
> Can I provide any useful detail? Of course, test patches are always welcome :)

I was able to reproduce alike storm in some situations.

Try new version: http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/timers_oneshot7.patch

-- 
Alexander Motin



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