From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 17:23:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB26106566C for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julianelischer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143B08FC18 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so28892fxm.3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:23:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=472uYVBXTtIQBfP13uoQPmxdL03z/BNgolyuCm2315w=; b=gh9HxXXwy+P0OaKGfpFP72/wbGSROOep35+dNMjA/N4g+hjqkQ/leZImWc2mNpmjdS V8XpUVg4VuZogmBIWedFZfvsQER97Wa6CZZFx5HaZ0ngqt9DWzghclAzE/zj/h5i6anV Bce7fQEsjEgoYjL71BgzKxYtmoyJpd6Qwl8To= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sFIlHtWNNb6cWZM8+C8Pyv8xjGjl1BF2sKNvz9eccydqB3HH9uUdU6ulm2IIVsTBSG 1lCHld78uJb7l2C63rrLzMoC3+XVLoy8CVU3U6f9BnjyxPOC4VRsT/1XINnnLScVhR6x lO5ymV8bsel03+1HS5q6L+FEMPHiQJSgFxE2c= Received: by 10.223.7.78 with SMTP id c14mr1109027fac.64.1269968172046; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (h-67-100-89-137.snfccasy.static.covad.net [67.100.89.137]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm13069000fks.53.2010.03.30.09.56.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <4BB22D32.6030501@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:56:18 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= References: <411a180c1003300537g2a1b4879u2d8d952ce9977cb5@mail.gmail.com> <411a180c1003300639l13d33451q305a61b2bcd6e3d5@mail.gmail.com> <86fx3hrkhe.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86fx3hrkhe.fsf@ds4.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Tsuyoshi Ozawa , freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Dynamic ticks in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:23:44 -0000 On 3/30/10 6:45 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Tsuyoshi Ozawa writes: >> I started to work dynamic ticks in FreeBSD, and now experimental >> code start to work roughly. > > This is great! I haven't looked at the patch, but I'm very happy that > someone actually implemented this. We've been talking about it for > years, and there was actually a GSoC project last year, but nothing came > out of it. I really hope we can commit this soon! > > BTW, at one point, in your blog, you write "periodic tick mode" instead > of "dynamic tick mode", which had me confused for a moment. > > DES Who are you? and what have you done with DES?