removing solaris cyclic

[Andriy Gapon]

On 09/10/2014 18:34, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2014, at 4:13, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>> I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following branch
>> for a phased removal of solaris cyclic code: 
>> https://github.com/avg-I/freebsd/compare/review/no-cyclic Raw diff:
>> https://github.com/avg-I/freebsd/compare/master...review/no-cyclic.diff
>> 
>> The only user of cyclic now is DTrace profile provider, so I am
>> converting it to use our improved callout(9).  cyclic is almost a
>> complete implementation of an alternative to our callout(9), so having
>> that big chunk of foreign code which duplicates a core function is not
>> nice.
>> 
>> One thing that I am not sure about is what PROF_ARTIFICIAL_FRAMES should
>> be on different platforms.  Also, I am not sure if the number of
>> interrupt, timer, etc frames depends on a timer being used.  I'd
>> appreciate any help on this.
> 
> Can you create a reviews.freebsd.org patch for this?

Done: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1161

-- 
Andriy Gapon