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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:40:38 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c vm_zeroidle.c 
Message-ID:  <20020718214038.179B23811@overcee.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207181740.g6IHe7fI031077@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Alan Cox wrote:
> alc         2002/07/18 10:40:07 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/vm               vm_pageq.c vm_zeroidle.c 
>   Log:
>    o Remove the acquisition and release of Giant from the idle priority
>      thread
>      that pre-zeroes free pages.
>    o Remove GIANT_REQUIRED from some low-level page queue functions.
>      (Instead assertions on the page queue lock are being added to the
>      higher-level functions, like vm_page_wire(), etc.)
>   
>   In collaboration with:  peter

I've been running this for quite a while now, it shaves about 1.5 to 2
minutes from my quad xeon buildworld times.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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