removing solaris cyclic

[George Neville-Neil]

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?

Thanks,
George
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