Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 3/4] Disable scheduler tick when we are running SCHED_FIFO tasks | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:13 +0200 |
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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
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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