Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 3/4] Disable scheduler tick when we are running SCHED_FIFO tasks | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:45:43 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:29 +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: > This patch is disabling the scheduler tick to go off when there is a task > with SCHED_FIFO policy running. Since these tasks are not timesliced anyway > we only care about timers, softirqs and such stuff just like when we disable > the tick during idle periods. >
Also, doesn't this break any and all jiffies users?
And you need to restart the tick on call_rcu() and everything else that requires the tick for processing.
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