From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 11:34:54 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 64A9137B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:34:51 -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 eARJYnC43140; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:34:49 -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: <20001127192558.897B3BA7A@io.yi.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:35:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jake Burkholder Subject: Re: review: callout patch Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, smp@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Nov-00 Jake Burkholder wrote: >> >> 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. Ah, I had thought timeout(9) didn't document those. Well, then updating timeout(9) and adding appropriate MLINK's would be cool. :) -- 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