Re: Tickles scheduler

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Mark Hounschell wrote:

> On 10/28/2010 09:47 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > The current plan is to switch off the tick when a process is running that
> > cannot be preempted ("realtime" (very bad choice of terms) tasks).
> >
>
> In what kind of time frame is this plan? And in the plan what will be the criteria for
> "cannot be preempted"?

Time frame is dependent on my available time unless someone else steps
forward to help out. The criteria for "cannot be preempted" could be
initially a process running with SCHED_FIFO.
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