From 16af66b18a2ea3e42f9256168052a7cd8b906c89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tedu <tedu@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:38:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] don't drop the kernel lock everytime. on a busy system, this
 results in the reaper spending more than half its time in uvm_pause. we want
 the system to be interactive, but we want throughput too. this seems like a
 decent balance.

---
 sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c b/sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c
index 7a9618aa496..9eff05e49e9 100644
--- a/sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c
+++ b/sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: uvm_glue.c,v 1.68 2014/12/05 04:12:48 uebayasi Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: uvm_glue.c,v 1.69 2014/12/15 20:38:22 tedu Exp $	*/
 /*	$NetBSD: uvm_glue.c,v 1.44 2001/02/06 19:54:44 eeh Exp $	*/
 
 /* 
@@ -467,8 +467,12 @@ uvm_atopg(vaddr_t kva)
 void
 uvm_pause(void)
 {
-	KERNEL_UNLOCK();
-	KERNEL_LOCK();
+	static unsigned int toggle;
+	if (toggle++ > 128) {
+		toggle = 0;
+		KERNEL_UNLOCK();
+		KERNEL_LOCK();
+	}
 	if (curcpu()->ci_schedstate.spc_schedflags & SPCF_SHOULDYIELD)
 		preempt(NULL);
 }
-- 
2.20.1