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SubjectRe: [RFC 3/4] Disable scheduler tick when we are running SCHED_FIFO tasks
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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> writes:

> 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.

How would these tasks accounted for then?

The CPU time accounting relies on the timer tick currently.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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