libbb: make msleep() result in only one syscall instead of looping

function                                             old     new   delta
msleep                                                45      52      +7

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/bb_do_delay.c b/libbb/bb_do_delay.c
index 3dbf032db..9a84fa24b 100644
--- a/libbb/bb_do_delay.c
+++ b/libbb/bb_do_delay.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ void FAST_FUNC sleep1(void)
 
 void FAST_FUNC msleep(unsigned ms)
 {
+#if 0
         /* 1. usleep(n) is not guaranteed by standards to accept n >= 1000000
          * 2. multiplication in usleep(ms * 1000) can overflow if ms > 4294967
          *    (sleep of ~71.5 minutes)
@@ -46,4 +47,21 @@ void FAST_FUNC msleep(unsigned ms)
                 ms -= 500;
         }
         usleep(ms * 1000);
+#else
+//usleep is often implemented as a call to nanosleep.
+//Simply do the same to implement msleep.
+//it's marginally larger, but wakes your CPU less often:
+//function    old     new   delta
+//msleep       45      52      +7
+        struct timespec ts;
+        ts.tv_sec = ms / 1000;
+        ts.tv_nsec = (ms % 1000) * 1000000;
+        /*
+         * If a signal has non-default handler, nanosleep returns early.
+         * Our version of msleep doesn't return early
+         * if interrupted by such signals:
+         */
+        while (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) != 0)
+                continue;
+#endif
 }
diff --git a/libbb/platform.c b/libbb/platform.c
index d2b263a6d..329b0237e 100644
--- a/libbb/platform.c
+++ b/libbb/platform.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ int FAST_FUNC usleep(unsigned usec)
          * If a signal has non-default handler, nanosleep returns early.
          * Our version of usleep doesn't return early
          * if interrupted by such signals:
-         *
          */
         while (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) != 0)
                 continue;