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Pat the watchdog less while producing a coredump. Prior to this change,

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Pat the watchdog less while producing a coredump. Prior to this change,
we patted the watchdog approximately once per 4KB page of memory. After
this change, we pat the watchdog approximately once per 128MB of memory.
On a sample machine, this translated to patting the watchdog approximately
every 5.4 seconds, which "seems reasonable". We can choose a different
value in the future, if warranted.

This has extensive field experience. It is a performance improvement, and
has not caused any known problems.

Reviewed by: imp, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14988

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Provenance
jtlAuthored on
Reviewer
imp
Differential Revision
D14988: Pat the watchdog less while producing a coredump
Parents
rS332116: MFC r331212,r331213: Move /boot/overlays to /boot/dtb/overlays
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