svn commit: r243631 - in head/sys: kern sys
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 14 18:03:20 UTC 2013
On Monday, January 14, 2013 10:51:27 am Alexander Motin wrote:
> As I've actually written, there are two different things:
> ncallout -- number of preallocated callout structures for purposes of
> timeout() calls. That is a legacy API that is probably not very much
> used now, so that value don't need to be too big. But that allocation is
> static and if it will ever be exhausted system will panic. That is why
> it was set quite high. The right way now would be to analyze where that
> API is still used and estimate the really required number.
FYI, I have slowly been working through the tree fixing users of timeout()
to use callout_*() instead.
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John Baldwin
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