Re: [UPDATE PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout()

[George Anzinger]

Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
~
> Sorry, I forgot that sys_nanosleep() also always adds 1 to the request
> (to account for this same issue, I believe, as POSIX demands no early
> return from nanosleep() calls). There are some other locations where
> similar
>
> 	+ (t.tv_sec || t.tv_nsec)

This is not the same as "always add 1".  We don't do it this way just to 
have fun with C.  If you change schedule_timeout() to add the 1, 
nanosleep() will need to do things differently to get the same behavior. 
 (And, YES users do pass in zero sleep times.)


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