Re: [2.6.24.x] UML select()/poll() oversleeping reproducibly (was Re: [uml-devel] g_timeout_add)

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

Below is the same patch with another kluge, which cuts down the
requested sleep by 10% in hopes of getting the actual sleep closer to
what's wanted.

This is unusable in anything resembling mainline, but I'd like to see
how your various systems react to it.  I'm getting very close to the
sleeps I asked for (with slight undersleeping, which is a bug).

       	       	   Jeff

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Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c	2008-02-18 11:53:51.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c	2008-03-17 15:11:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -58,12 +58,17 @@ static inline long long timeval_to_ns(co
 long long disable_timer(void)
 {
 	struct itimerval time = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 } });
+	int remain, max = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
 
 	if (setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &time, &time) < 0)
 		printk(UM_KERN_ERR "disable_timer - setitimer failed, "
 		       "errno = %d\n", errno);
 
-	return timeval_to_ns(&time.it_value);
+	remain = timeval_to_ns(&time.it_value);
+	if (remain > max)
+		remain = max;
+
+	return remain;
 }
 
 long long os_nsecs(void)
@@ -126,6 +131,8 @@ void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs
 	 */
 	if (nsecs == 0)
 		nsecs = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ;
+
+	nsecs = nsecs * 9 / 10;
 	ts = ((struct timespec) { .tv_sec	= nsecs / UM_NSEC_PER_SEC,
 				  .tv_nsec	= nsecs % UM_NSEC_PER_SEC });