Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps

[Alan Cox]

> Userspace clearly has an expectation that sleep(0) is magic in some 
> ill-defined way. We'd be well within our rights to break that 
> expectation, but I think it's common enough to warrant special casing.

In historical Unix sleep(0) ends up the nearest equivalent it had to
triggering a reschedule and giving up the rest of the timeslice.

I suspect special casing it as yield() isn't far from the right result ?

Alan
 
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