Re: AW: Re: beta5 ...

> At least on AIX it looks like the select with 0 timeout is a noop, and does not
> yield the processor. There was discussion, that other OS's (BSD) also does an
> immediate return in case of 0 timeout.
>
> Minimum select(2) delay is 1 msec on AIX (tested with Tom's test.c).
>
> So, what was the case against using yield (2) ?

BSDi doesn't have yield(). It does have sched_yield(), but that
controls threads:

force the current pthread to be rescheduled

so there doesn't seem to be any portable way to do this. Sleeps of zero
do no kernel call, and sleeps > 0 sleep for a minimum of one tick.

If you really want a near-zero sleep, you need to do a no-op kernel
call, like umask(), but doing a simple kernel call usually is not enough
because kernels usually favor the last-running process because of the
CPU cache. We need a "try to schedule someone else if they are ready to
run, if not, return right away" call.

I think ultimately, we need the type of near-committers feedback, but
not for 7.1.

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