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Re: nanosleep() for shorted than schedule slice

To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: nanosleep() for shorted than schedule slice
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:54:52 +0200

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> I wonder if it would make sense for nanosleep(2) to check that requested
> sleeping time is shorter than a schedule slice, and if it is, spin the
> CPU instead of scheduling another process. Any opinion on this?

No, that's wrong. It's also been discussed before.

Joerg

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