Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:03:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hlt when idle? Message-ID: <3CD17167.96118A88@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20020502104501.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On 02-May-2002 Jonathan Mini wrote: > > They're really proud of this solution, > > because (they claim) it reduces contentions of clock-triggered events across > > processors. > > It probably does. It definitely does, provided you are guaranteed that the clock interrupt handler can always execute in less time than the interval between clock interrupts. Then you don't have to contend on the global handler lock to ensure it only runs once. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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