Without this patch any waits for periods shorter than a single tick return immediately leading to a lot of unnecessary spinning. For example, I observe that my guest's idle loop does a lot of sleeps with periods slightly shorter than 1 ms (1/hz), e.g. 900us. All that waiting turns into pure spinning and VirtualBox eats 100% of a core. The patch improves the situation significantly. Also, it (approximately) follows what tvtohz does. Submitted by: Andriy Gapon --- src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h.orig 2012-12-19 19:27:29.000000000 +0100 +++ src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h 2012-12-20 12:07:48.941861966 +0100 @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ uint64_t cTicks = ASMMultU64ByU32DivByU32(uTimeout, hz, UINT32_C(1000000000)); if (cTicks >= INT_MAX) return RTSEMWAIT_FLAGS_INDEFINITE; + else if (cTicks == 0 && uTimeout > 0) + pWait->iTimeout = 1; else pWait->iTimeout = (int)cTicks; #endif