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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/4] Disable scheduler tick when we are running
 SCHED_FIFO tasks
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:43:34 +0200
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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?