From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 11:26: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from io.yi.org (unknown [24.70.218.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F1337B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from io.yi.org (localhost.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by io.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897B3BA7A; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:25:58 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Baldwin Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: review: callout patch In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:33:04 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:25:58 -0800 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <20001127192558.897B3BA7A@io.yi.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. :) timeout.9 exists, its just not linked. > > -- > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message