Hey,

I'd like to commit this patch in a couple of days if nobody objects.  I 
think this fixes the "audio stutters" on machines with a lot of memory.

cheers
   simon

Index: kern/vfs_mount.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -p -r1.30 vfs_mount.c
--- kern/vfs_mount.c    5 Jan 2008 14:02:38 -0000       1.30
+++ kern/vfs_mount.c    5 Feb 2008 01:18:21 -0000
@@ -906,6 +906,7 @@ vmntvnodescan(
         struct vnode *vp;
         int r = 0;
         int maxcount = 1000000;
+       int count = 0;

         lwkt_gettoken(&ilock, &mntvnode_token);

@@ -981,12 +982,24 @@ vmntvnodescan(
                                 break;
                 }

+next:
+               /*
+                * Yield after some processing.  Depending on the number
+                * of vnodes, we might wind up running for a long time.
+                * Because threads are not preemptable, time critical
+                * userland processes might starve.  Give them a chance
+                * now and then.
+                */
+               if (++count == 10000) {
+                       lwkt_yield();
+                       count = 0;
+               }
+
                 /*
                  * Iterate.  If the vnode was ripped out from under us
                  * info.vp will already point to the next vnode, otherwise
                  * we have to obtain the next valid vnode ourselves.
                  */
-next:
                 if (info.vp == vp)
                         info.vp = TAILQ_NEXT(vp, v_nmntvnodes);
         }

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