PERFORCE change 99099 for review

John Birrell jb at what-creek.com
Wed Jun 14 20:52:08 UTC 2006


On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:30:46AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 20:47, John Birrell wrote:
> > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=99099
> > 
> > Change 99099 by jb at jb_freebsd2 on 2006/06/13 00:47:28
> > 
> > 	Add hooks for DTrace to register a function to be called when
> > 	the scheduler chooses a new thread to run. This is required for
> > 	DTrace vtime.
> 
> You should probably do this in mi_switch() in kern_synch.c rather than
> in this macro.

Looking further at this is seems that the code actually has to be
inserted into each scheduler just before the call to cpu_switch because
the schedulers are each capable of selecting a new thread right up
to that time (see sched_switch).

--
John Birrell


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