callout patch #2 - make callouts per-cpu and MP safe.
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Sep 16 14:46:56 PDT 2004
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:31:58PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Here is an updated patch. No bug fixes, just some API changes as
> per discussions with Joerg.
>
> fetch http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~dillon/callout02.patch
>
> Note: this patch goes back to the original callout_init() API so there
> are fewer files being patched. If you applied the old patch you must
> be sure to remove/fresh-checkout *all* the files that were touched by
> the old patch before applying this one.
Can you also add a flag and an INVARIANT check to ensure that timers
are indeed correctly initialized? Most code does a bzero or uses default
zeroing, so we should be able to catch those easily.
Joerg
>
> -Matt
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