]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:53:40 +0000 (01:53 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:40:19 +0000 (13:40 +1100)
commit4e9c3c1db367e1d80a0cd1ea2839cd7c85c0edea
tree489e57668c814ba2ddc21080971de95604c4553c
parenteafe35b5f49d6954128ec58dc507463e05541b85
hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps

sleep(0) is a common construct used by applications that want to trigger
the scheduler.  sched_yield() might make more sense, but only appeared in
POSIX.1-2001 and so plenty of example code still uses the sleep(0) form.

This wouldn't normally be a problem, but it means that event-driven
applications that are merely trying to avoid starving other processes may
actually end up sleeping due to having large timer_slack values.  Special-
casing this seems reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/hrtimer.c