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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:40:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 20:38 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Application authors do seem to have ended up under the belief 
> > that sleep(0) is a meaningful thing to do, and the internet seems to be 
> > full of suggestions to use it rather than sched_yield().
> 
> http://xkcd.com/386/

I'm not even going to pretend to disagree. The question is whether we 
want to support their breakage anyway.
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