Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in theLinux-kernel]

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 14:29:13 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:56:58AM -0400, Ted Baker wrote:
> I have not seen any more e-mail on this. How is it going? Is there any
> chance of rolling in some corrections for the SCHED_SPORADIC treatment? In
> particular, could we have a DO_NOT_RUN priority, that is guaranteed to
> prevent a task from running at all?

Sorry for asking a maybe stupid question, but what is this good for and
what is the benefit over SIGSTOP?

Joerg

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