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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:14:20 +0200
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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.