On May 29, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:59:44AM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> xpthread_barrier_wait() quiesces.

I don’t see the revalidate() calling this?

  Jarno

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