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Diffstat (limited to 'emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy/files/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h')
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diff --git a/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy/files/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h b/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy/files/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e1ae4d7ea855 --- /dev/null +++ b/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy/files/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r0drv-freebsd-sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Without this patch any waits for periods shorter than a single tick return +immediately leading to a lot of unnecessary spinning. For example, I observe that +my guest's idle loop does a lot of sleeps with periods slightly shorter than 1 ms +(1/hz), e.g. 900us. All that waiting turns into pure spinning and VirtualBox eats +100% of a core. +The patch improves the situation significantly. Also, it (approximately) follows +what tvtohz does. + +Submitted by: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> +--- src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h.orig 2012-12-19 19:27:29.000000000 +0100 ++++ src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h 2012-12-20 12:07:48.941861966 +0100 +@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ + uint64_t cTicks = ASMMultU64ByU32DivByU32(uTimeout, hz, UINT32_C(1000000000)); + if (cTicks >= INT_MAX) + return RTSEMWAIT_FLAGS_INDEFINITE; ++ else if (cTicks == 0 && uTimeout > 0) ++ pWait->iTimeout = 1; + else + pWait->iTimeout = (int)cTicks; + #endif |