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Date:      Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:29:02 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195960 - in head/sys/dev/usb: . controller input
Message-ID:  <20090802192902.GS47463@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908012313500.1507@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200907300014.n6U0EZ77086341@svn.freebsd.org> <d04e16b70907310045y635245efob33b10464c22524f@mail.gmail.com> <20090731212140.GK47463@elvis.mu.org> <200908010615.02972.hselasky@c2i.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908012313500.1507@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [090801 15:15] wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> 
> >>>This has slowed down core dumps very significantly.  What used to take 
> >>>10-15s on my system now takes around 3 minutes.  A simple test is to 
> >>>break into ddb and "call doadump" with or without this rev.  I have a 
> >>>serial console on this machine and so I can use ddb whether the attached 
> >>>USB keyboard works or not.
> >
> >It's because there is a DELAY(1000) in the UKBD's polling routine so that 
> >key- repeating will work, no magic.
> 
> Given a choice between dumping 10x faster and having automatic key repeat 
> in DDB, I'd lean towards the former.  :-)
> 

Robert, and *@freebsd.org,

Hans should be back in a day or so to address this.  If critical I can
probably back out the offending code, but I think it makes sense to
wait a few days more for a more comprehensive fix.


-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
.- AMA, VMOA #5191, 03 vmax, 92 gs500, 85 ch250
.- FreeBSD committer



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