- Make callout(9) tickless, relying on eventtimers(4) as backend for

precise time event generation. This greatly improves granularity of
callouts which are not anymore constrained to wait next tick to be
scheduled.
- Extend the callout KPI introducing a set of callout_reset_sbt* functions,
which take a sbintime_t as timeout argument. The new KPI also offers a
way for consumers to specify precision tolerance they allow, so that
callout can coalesce events and reduce number of interrupts as well as
potentially avoid scheduling a SWI thread.
- Introduce support for dispatching callouts directly from hardware
interrupt context, specifying an additional flag. This feature should be
used carefully, as long as interrupt context has some limitations
(e.g. no sleeping locks can be held).
- Enhance mechanisms to gather informations about callwheel, introducing
a new sysctl to obtain stats.

This change breaks the KBI. struct callout fields has been changed, in
particular 'int ticks' (4 bytes) has been replaced with 'sbintime_t'
(8 bytes) and another 'sbintime_t' field was added for precision.

Together with:	mav
Reviewed by:	attilio, bde, luigi, phk
Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by:	flo (amd64, sparc64), marius (sparc64), ian (arm),
		markj (amd64), mav, Fabian Keil

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/sys/systm.h b/sys/sys/systm.h
index 11a9cf942b9e..85fa1c8e7bca 100644
--- a/sys/sys/systm.h
+++ b/sys/sys/systm.h
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ void	cpu_startprofclock(void);
 void	cpu_stopprofclock(void);
 sbintime_t 	cpu_idleclock(void);
 void	cpu_activeclock(void);
+void	cpu_new_callout(int cpu, sbintime_t bt, sbintime_t bt_opt);
 extern int	cpu_can_deep_sleep;
 extern int	cpu_disable_deep_sleep;