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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c interrupt.c
Message-ID:  <14341.21686.357856.650246@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910141158300.32868-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
References:  <199910131918.MAA77949@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910141158300.32868-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans writes:
 > 
 > This mainly weakens the statclock to hide bugs.  The most obvious bug is

Yes.

 > that _BSD_CLOCKS_PER_SEC_ was broken on alphas (is 100 but needed to be
 > 1024 if hz was 1024).  It seems to be still broken (is 100 but needs to
 > be 128 if stathz is 128).  However, _BSD_CLOCKS_PER_SEC_ only affects
 > little-used userland interfaces (e.g, clock(3) and times(3)), so the main

So little used that I really wasn't aware of them.  Both _BSD_CLK_TCK_ 
and _BSD_CLOCKS_PER_SEC_ should be changed to 128 if stathz == 128, correct?

 > bug must be elsewhere.  I think there are scaling bugs in schedcpu(), and
 > NetBSD has fixed them.  These bugs may affect all systems with realstathz
 > != 100.

There's a nice commit message detailing what was done at
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/syssrc/sys/kern/kern_synch.c 

Maybe somebody who's familiar enough with schedcpu to make sense of it
could take a look at what they've done..

Thanks,

Drew

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