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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:36:42 -0700
From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Optimization opportunity: don't recurse callout mutex in
 timeout_reset()
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At 20:28 04/08/2004, Robert Watson wrote:
>timeout_reset() is called from the TCP code pretty frequently.  I observed
>that the callout code path is recursing the callout mutex.  Here's the KTR
>trace:
>...
>Eliminating the recursion would be beneficial, if we could.

I'll take care of this.

Colin Percival