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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:22:06 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: [RFC/RFT] calloutng
Message-ID:  <20130102162206.GA45701@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <CAO4K=PUHAH=UNzMde0V2TwkN5vj3gw9hHj5yCQxDvdUn%2Buqv7w@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <50D03173.9080904@FreeBSD.org> <20121225232126.GA47692@alchemy.franken.de> <50DB4EFE.2020600@FreeBSD.org> <1356909223.54953.74.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20121231061735.GA5866@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <50E16637.9070501@FreeBSD.org> <20130102105730.GA42542@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <50E418EA.7030801@FreeBSD.org> <20130102122743.GA43241@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <CAO4K=PUHAH=UNzMde0V2TwkN5vj3gw9hHj5yCQxDvdUn%2Buqv7w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
...
> > First of all, if you know that there is already a hardclock/statclock/*
> > scheduled in [T_X, T_X+D] you just reuse that. This particular bullet
> > was ""no event scheduled in [T_X, T_X+D]" so you need to generate
> > a new one.
> 
> That is true, but my main point was about merging with external events,
> which I can't predict and the only way to merge is increase sleep period,
> hoping for better.

ok, now i understand why you want to schedule for T_X+D.

Probably one way to close this discussion would be to provide
a sysctl so the sysadmin can decide which point in the interval
to pick when there is no suitable callout already scheduled.

cheers
luigi

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