when serving up more than about 32 active files. For details see
section 6.3 (pg 111) of Daniel Ellard and Margo Seltzer, ``NFS
Tricks and Benchmarking Traps'' in the Proceedings of the Usenix
2003 Freenix Track, June 9-14, 2003 pg 101-114.
Obtained from: Daniel Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
TAI is a timescale, just like UTC. The tai field returns the offset
between the two, and isn't really used for precision time keeping.
Explain in brief what a positive and a negative leap seconds are. Add
some URLs to very useful web pages about time and time keeping for
more information on using this API.
Reviewed by: phk
causing poor interactive performance while unnice processes were running.
The new scheme still allows nice to have an effect on priority but it is
not as dramatic as the effect of the interactivity score.
or -1 on failure. The manual used to say it returned 0 or -1. Both
examination of the kernel sources, and ntpd show that this is the case.
MFC After: 3 days
- Avoid calling bread() with different sizes on the same blkno.
Although the buffer cache is designed to handle differing size
buffers, it erroneously tries to write the incorrectly-sized buffer
buffer back to disk before reading the correctly-sized one, even
when it's not dirty. This behaviour caused a panic for read-only
NTFS mounts when INVARIANTS was enabled ("bundirty: buffer x still
on queue y"), reported by NAKAJI Hiroyuki.
- Fix a bug in the code handling holes: a variable was incremented
instead of decremented, which could cause an infinite loop.
for vnodes reached through double indirection (i.e. **vpp). This
is worked-around by special-casing the identifier "vpp" (adding one
level of indirection).
The alternative fix mentioned in the PR had required substantial
changes to this script.
In case there are locking violations that had been hidden without
this patch, they may suddenly show up, now ...
This change does not affect code compiled without DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS.
PR: kern/46652
before calling it for bound thread. To avoid this problem, change
thread_schedule_upcall to not put new thread on run queue, let caller
do it, so we can tweak the new thread before setting it to run.
Reported by: pho
