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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: review: callout patch
Message-ID:  <20001126155526.K69183@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001126210014.D824BBA7A@io.yi.org>
References:  <20001126210014.D824BBA7A@io.yi.org>

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:00:14PM -0800, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 
> This patch makes most of sys/kern/* sources use callout_reset for
> registering callouts rather than timeout(9).  This should greatly
> reduce the use of the fixed size callfree allocator pool.  Currently
> we panic when it runs out.
> 
> This was motivated by NetBSD, who have completely removed timeout(9)
> from their kernel.

Looks good to me.  I was moving the the same direction, but didn't know
that NetBSD had already done this.
--
Jonathan


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