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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:46:27PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Dammit, we cannot come up with a reasonable definition for special
> casing that stuff simply because you cannot draw a clear boundary what
> to special case and what not. And there is no sensible definition for
> what to do - return right away or go through schedule() or what ever.
> 
> sleep(0) is as pointless as sched_yield() and it's about time that we
> stop to create a fucking mess in the kernel just because user space
> programmers refuse to understand how an operating system works and how
> proper programming should be done.

Ok. I'll work on finding how prevelant it is and see if we can kill it 
off in userspace.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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