Updated switch/glue patch?
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Dec 19 06:44:51 UTC 2011
On Dec 18, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 18 December 2011 16:29, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> What is it without WITNESS? The performance numbers with WITNESS are generally uninteresting for a deployed system.
>
> It's still ridiculously CPU intensive. :( It turns out trying to do
> those locks three times one each GPIO IO line fiddle is a bit over the
> top.
That's the real problem. WITNESS is a known pigdog on low-end systems, so measurements with it tend to skew the results a tad too much. On the other hand, it did magnify the problem to the point it was fixed :)
The insane locking should be fixed.
Warner
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