Re: [uml-devel] [patch] fix ptrace slowness

[Oleg N. <ol...@re...>]

On 03/23, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> There's an alternative patch
> below. Would you mind to give it a test? Chances are that it will
> make UML even faster than your fix.
>
> 	Ingo
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 3e827b8..2d60f23 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -2119,7 +2119,8 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p, long match_state)
>  		 * yield - it could be a while.
>  		 */
>  		if (unlikely(on_rq)) {
> -			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> +			cpu_relax();
> +			cond_resched();

What if the caller is a realtime task? We can spin "forever", no?

Oleg.