Hi, Sometimes sysctl's default value needs to be setup at boot time and not when the rc.d/sysctl is running. Currently this is done by having two statements in the kernel: TUNABLE_INT("net.graph.mppe.log_max_rekey", &mppe_log_max_rekey); SYSCTL_INT(_net_graph_mppe, OID_AUTO, log_max_rekey, CTLFLAG_RW, I want to simplify this to: SYSCTL_INT(_net_graph_mppe, OID_AUTO, log_max_rekey, CTLFLAG_RWTUN, In other words if the existing CTLFLAG_TUN is set, the sysctl will automatically be pre-loaded with values from /boot/loader.conf. The reason we don't want the current approach is: 1) It duplicates the sysctl path in the TUNABLE statement. 2) It does not work very well for dynamically attached sysctls. There is a lot of code overhead computing the TUNABLE() path before the TUNABLE() can be fetched. Here is a work in progress: http://home.selasky.org:8192/sysctl_tunable.diff In most cases my patch is fine, but in some other cases I need some input, like in the VM subsystem when doing init, I'm not sure if the SYSINIT() for subsystem SI_SUB_KMEM, which sysctl's are using, has already been executed. --HPSReceived on Wed Jun 18 2014 - 09:36:40 UTC
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