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hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:19:58 +0000 (11:19 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:15:49 +0000 (14:15 +1100)
commit9c0e210a7168f7e61e2d86ecc8dba3986c2a67f0
tree0f4c4167d2ec205d235be3d4c41ac1e161f205c1
parent8dccf24bf5f717264d3434e4ac5d6a45a23df4b3
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