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Re: make: remove wantToken and skip polling tokenWaitJob



The patch mentioned can also be seen at

http://www.netbsd.org/~sjg/make-skip-poll-jobq.diff

The proposal is not to commit that but to simply remove
wantToken etc.

Simon J Gerraty <sjg%juniper.net@localhost> wrote:

> It has been reported from a number of folk that polling tokenWaitJob
> adds considerable overhead for very little gain.
> 
> I've been testing with this disabled for a while, with no apparent
> breakage, and even small jobs show a significant reduction of sys time -
> like 50%


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