On 03/06/2013 07:10 PM, Graham wrote:
> Alexandre wrote:
>> That's what the existing code already does.
>
> Indeed. I don't know what I was thinking...
>
>>> 2. If you're about to block on select(), then I don't see any point in
>>> preceding that with a call to sched_yield().
>>
>> This was added for a reason; most likely you'll have to write tests.
>
> i.e. commit 8099c2b9. JW says "... to more closely resemble Windows
> behavior. The key is to yield in a Sleep..."
JW is Jeremy White so us old timers chuckle now ;)
> I haven't yet figured out how he came up with this analysis, but I
> think it's safe to assume that he is correct, and my patch is garbage.
> Lesson learned: consult history.
"Date: Tue Nov 2 19:32:03 2004 +0000" and the comment mentions Win2K.
If the ancient wisdom isn't backed by tests there's a fair chance that
it might not be applicable today. Or that it was a wrong theory back
then too.
bye
michael
