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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:25:39 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com
Subject:   Re: Spurious SIGXCPU 
Message-ID:  <25118.897492339@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:23:46 %2B1000." <199806101323.XAA21805@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199806101323.XAA21805@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:

>Apparently the background process makes it more likely for the foreground
>process to appear to take a negative amount of time.
>
>Another sign of the bug is that accounting for rapid context switches
>is broken again:
>
>	$ time ./fork-benchmark 10000
>	        6.10 real         0.01 user         8.33 sys

if you make it always call
	microuptime(&p->p_switchtime);

after cpu_switch() in kern_synch, does that make it any different ?

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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