linux-kernel - Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

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Message-Id: <1251440060.18584.103.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:14:20 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	raz ben yehuda <raziebe@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	maximlevitsky@...il.com, efault@....de, riel@...hat.com,
	wiseman@...s.biu.ac.il, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:22 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:

> I wonder if it makes sense to do something along the lines of the
> sched-class...

Disabling the tick isn't a big deal from the scheduler's point of view,
its all the other accounting crap that happens.


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