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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:27:47 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons/apm apm_saver.c src/sys/i386/bios apm.c apm.h
Message-ID:  <20060601042747.GX27819@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200605311123.02334.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200605252306.k4PN6cCS081708@repoman.freebsd.org> <200605311050.12156.jhb@freebsd.org> <447DAF19.3050901@samsco.org> <200605311123.02334.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:23:01AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
J> Nah, that was phk's other timekeeping code to see which timeouts take a long 
J> time to execute.  The THREAD_NO_SLEEPING() stuff was added just before 6.0 
J> was released and replaced a couple of "special" mutexes that were held just 
J> to provoke WITNESS warnings.

To take a long time to execute one doesn't need to sleep, it can also do
a lot of job.

I know at least two examples of heavy callouts: dummynet and pf. Under
heavy traffic both subsystems process a lot of packets during one callout.
I have patches to move their job to a separate taskqueue. The dummynet
patch needs some testing and the pf patch waits for Max Laier to decide
what to chose: taskqueue API or kthread_create() as newest pf in OpenBSD
does.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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