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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:12:34 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cpu.c
Message-ID:  <20030130031234.GB1224@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030130012706.073622A89E@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <3E2545E9.3080803@isi.edu> <20030130012706.073622A89E@canning.wemm.org>

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:27:06PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Peter Wemm, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> This is a bit old, but it can cause a slight slowdown, because it may take
> a little longer for a cpu to notice a job sitting on the run queue that it
> could have been running.  Once it does a halt, it will stop checking until
> the next interrupt (sometimes a clock, sometimes disk/net/etc).  This

Did I miss something somewhere?  Does this now work correctly on SMP?  Or
is that only with ACPI?


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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