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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:40:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329338428.2293.176.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120215203814.GA29795@srcf.ucam.org>

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/

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29 14:59 [PATCH] hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-15 14:52   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 20:14     ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-15 20:22       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 20:30         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-15 20:38           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 20:40             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-02-15 20:43               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 20:46             ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-15 20:47               ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-16 14:27                 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-16 14:31                   ` Alan Cox
2012-02-16 14:51                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 15:01                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-16 19:09                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-15 14:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15 14:58     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-02-15 20:22       ` Thomas Gleixner

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