On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 01:06:47 UTC, Sam bobroff wrote: > The tm-resched-dscr self test can, in some situations, run for > several minutes before being successfully interrupted by the context > switch it needs in order to perform the test. This often seems to > occur when the test is being run in a virtual machine. > > Improve the test by running it under eat_cpu() to guarantee > contention for the CPU and increase the chance of a context switch. > > In practice this seems to reduce the test time, in some cases, from > more than two minutes to under a second. > > Also remove the "progress dots" so that if the test does run for a > long time, it doesn't produce large amounts of unnecessary output. > > Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobr...@au1.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/99597ceda00b57396a176e08bd5e5c cheers
