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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2022 00:41:21 -0500
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   atkbd_timeout() period?
Message-ID:  <e2c07aa3-975a-1780-d6f8-db03d12a232f@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi,

As I see, one of the most active threaded callouts on idle VMware VM and
some hardware is atkbd_timeout(), called 10 times per second.  Plus it
is also one of few remaining non-MP-safe callouts.  According to the
comment it seems to be only a workaround for some lost interrupts.  That
makes me thing: is it really needed to run so often and so accurate, or
may be we could reduce it to 1-2 times per second?  Or may be it can be
avoided somehow 20 years later?

-- 
Alexander Motin



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