Re: [patch] fix ptrace slowness

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 12:16:19 EST



* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

hm, yes. I sure should have noticed _that_ ;-)

Ingo
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