On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > Experiments with dummynet shown ineffective support for very short > tick-based callouts. New version fixes that, allowing to get as many > tick-based callout events as hz value permits, while still be able to > aggregate events and generating minimum of interrupts. > > Also this version modifies system load average calculation to fix some > cases existing in HEAD and 9 branches, that could be fixed with new > direct callout functionality. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/calloutng_12_17.patch > > With several important changes made last time I am going to delay commit > to HEAD for another week to do more testing. Comments and new test cases > are welcome. Thanks for staying tuned and commenting.
FYI, I gave both calloutng_12_15_1.patch and calloutng_12_17.patch a try on sparc64 and it at least survives a buildworld there. However, with the patched kernels, buildworld times seem to increase slightly but reproducible by 1-2% (I only did four runs but typically buildworld times are rather stable and don't vary more than a minute for the same kernel and source here). Is this an expected trade-off (system time as such doesn't seem to increase)? Is there anything specific to test? Marius _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
