On May 29, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:55:41PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: >> Since some threads do not call time_poll() regularly in their main loop >> (e.g. non-leader revalidator threads), their intermittent invocation of >> time_poll() in other modules can cause warnings like below: >> >> "Unreasonably long 16518ms poll interval". >> >> To suppress such warning, this commit allows thread to disable poll interval >> check in time_poll() by calling disable_check_poll_interval(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> > > Is this just because of the xpthread_barrier_wait() calls? It might > be nice to instead write our own poll_block()-able barriers.
Also, is it possible that these long poll intervals could also interplay with ovs-rcu? Do the revalidator threads ever quiesce, or do they not need to? Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
