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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:07 +0000 (10:41 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:49:44 +0000 (14:49 +1100)
commit7c49d008c01193ad24cfda75df55e5fabede02a8
tree6654ce7938d2765fe464053cc925950720bc9029
parent4b979756ee593d99585c9f67fcd3aced048adb11
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