linux-kernel - Re: Tickles scheduler

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Message-ID: <4CC9B2BD.1050504@compro.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:28:29 -0400
From:	Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
CC:	Dragoslav Zaric <zaricdragoslav@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tickles scheduler

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"?

Thanks
Mark
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