Re: [RFC 3/4] Disable scheduler tick when we are runningSCHED_FIFO tasks

From: Jan Blunck
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 10:32:26 EST


On Wed, Sep 08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Why only FIFO and not also nr_running == 1?

Lazy Bastard Syndrome
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