From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the Linux-kernel] Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:29:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20100426182903.GA14542@8bytes.org> References: <20100426115658.GA21346@cs.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: raj@ece.cmu.edu, jayhawk@soe.ucsc.edu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, raistlin@linux.it, niehaus@ittc.ku.edu, henrik@austad.us, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, billh@gnuppy.monkey.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, fabio@gandalf.sssup.it, anderson@cs.unc.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, dhaval.giani@gmail.com, cucinotta@sssup.it, lipari@retis.sssup.it, baker.tlh@comcast.net To: Ted Baker Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100426115658.GA21346@cs.fsu.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:56:58AM -0400, Ted Baker wrote: > I have not seen any more e-mail on this. How is it going? Is there any > chance of rolling in some corrections for the SCHED_SPORADIC treatment? In > particular, could we have a DO_NOT_RUN priority, that is guaranteed to > prevent a task from running at all? Sorry for asking a maybe stupid question, but what is this good for and what is the benefit over SIGSTOP? Joerg