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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:25:58 -0800
From:      Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: review: callout patch 
Message-ID:  <20001127192558.897B3BA7A@io.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:33:04 PST." <XFMail.001127103304.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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> On 26-Nov-00 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.
> > 
> > Please review it.
> 
> Looks good to me. :)
> 
> Having a callout.9 manpage to go along with it would be nice as well. :)

timeout.9 exists, its just not linked.

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