On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW. MII access functions are > >quite time consuming almost any way you look at it. > > I'm not sure the _tick functions should even be called from a timeout(). > > In many ways it seems preferable to me to have then run sequentially > from a single thread, possibly via a task-queue. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
Yeah, I suppose limiting it to one mii_tick routine per second would help somewhat... but it's still a bad situation. Actually, we could improve it quite a bit if someone adds NANODELAY() (hint, hint...) Couldn't we have a first-run nanodelay that just used nanotime to do the counting for it? Mike "Silby" Silbersack _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
