when testing in qemu, launching each ap became slower and slower
because all the ap's where spinning in syncclock() waiting for
cpu0 to update its mach0->tscticks, which happens only much later
after all cpu's have been started up.
now we wait for each cpu to do its timer callibration and
manually update our tscticks while we wait and each cpu will
not spin but halt while waiting for active.thunderbirdsarego.
this reduces the system load and noise for timer callibration
and makes the mp startup linear with regard to the number of
cores.
the shared command language assumed 512 byte sectors, which is
not the case for fdisk as it uses cylinders for the block unit.
so we introduce an extra argument in the Edit structure and
parseexpr() function so byte sizes are properly converted to
the block unit when the K,M,G and T postfixes are used.
the pcap files produced by snoopy had the wrong timestamps because it expected:
/* magic=0xa1b2c3d4 */
ulong ts_sec; /* seconds*/
ulong ts_usec; /* microseconds */
but we wrote:
uvlong ts; /* nanoseconds */
now, we write:
/* magic=0xa1b23c4d */
ulong ts_sec; /* seconds */
ulong ts_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
spew → I fixed the memory leak setjmp/longjmp problem with libjson
spew → http://www.spew.club/json.patch
spew → full file: http://www.spew.club/json.c
spew → going to bed, I'll annoy cinap_lenrek tomorrow to try to get this committed
instead of testing for special field primes each time in mpmod(),
make it explicit with a mpfiled() function that tests a modulus N
to be of some special form that can be reduced more efficiently with
some precalculation, and replaces N with a Mfield* when it can. the
Mfield*'s are recognized by mpmod() as they have the MPfield flag
set and provide a function pointer that executes the fast reduction.
