[RFC] Event timers on MIPS

[Alexander Motin]

Jayachandran C. wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Jayachandran C. wrote:
>>> Also, with just the count/compare, I get these print on early mutiuser bootup.
>>> ---
>>> calcru: runtime went backwards from 85936878 usec to 236488 usec for
>>> pid 1286 (rpcbind)
>>> calcru: runtime went backwards from 7158742 usec to 19700 usec for pid
>>> 1285 (nfsiod 0)
>>> calcru: runtime went backwards from 111005442 usec to 305474 usec for
>>> pid 1257 (syslogd)
>>> calcru: runtime went backwards from 10740196 usec to 29555 usec for
>>> pid 1048 (devd)
>>> --
>>> Did not get much time to investigate, any idea what the cause  can be?
>> I think it can easily be result of broken tick_ticker().
> 
> I'm planning to check-in the attached patch for mips/rmi, I think
> mips/mips would need something similar.

Looks fine. Does it help?

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Alexander Motin