diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 18e58249a81b08..0c53e4bdc1c694 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -5058,6 +5058,8 @@ information, consult your Unix manpages. The following scheduling policies are exposed if they are supported by the operating system. +.. _os-scheduling-policy: + .. data:: SCHED_OTHER The default scheduling policy. @@ -5149,7 +5151,7 @@ operating system. .. function:: sched_yield() - Voluntarily relinquish the CPU. + Voluntarily relinquish the CPU. See :manpage:`sched_yield(2)` for details. .. function:: sched_setaffinity(pid, mask, /) diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index db53296e2a5698..ebc1ef1abac23b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ Functions The suspension time may be longer than requested by an arbitrary amount, because of the scheduling of other activity in the system. + .. rubric:: Windows implementation + On Windows, if *secs* is zero, the thread relinquishes the remainder of its time slice to any other thread that is ready to run. If there are no other threads ready to run, the function returns immediately, and the thread @@ -375,12 +377,19 @@ Functions `_ which provides resolution of 100 nanoseconds. If *secs* is zero, ``Sleep(0)`` is used. - Unix implementation: + .. rubric:: Unix implementation * Use ``clock_nanosleep()`` if available (resolution: 1 nanosecond); * Or use ``nanosleep()`` if available (resolution: 1 nanosecond); * Or use ``select()`` (resolution: 1 microsecond). + .. note:: + + To emulate a "no-op", use :keyword:`pass` instead of ``time.sleep(0)``. + + To voluntarily relinquish the CPU, specify a real-time :ref:`scheduling + policy ` and use :func:`os.sched_yield` instead. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 The function now sleeps at least *secs* even if the sleep is interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see