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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:54:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_synch.c
Message-ID:  <20040131215357.N36463-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <200401282044.i0SKifeF063778@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> jhb         2004/01/28 12:44:41 PST
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_synch.c
>   Log:
>   Move the loadav() callout into its own kthread since it uses allproc_lock
>   which is a sleepable lock and thus is not safe to acquire from a callout
>   routine.

Can you back this out now?  I've commited a slightly better solution that
makes our loadavg function more correct as well as removing the lock
requirement.

Cheers,
Jeff

>
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.240     +31 -12    src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c
>



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