From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 10:33: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F12B37B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eARIWpC39794; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001126210014.D824BBA7A@io.yi.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:33:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jake Burkholder Subject: RE: review: callout patch Cc: smp@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message