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On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:37 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > I've wanted to pull the whole migration thread out from SCHED_FIFO for a
> > while. Doing that is probably the easiest thing.
> 
> Something like th 

No that makes it a SCHED_OTHER task, and will indeed result in a wedged
system very quickly.

The idea was to move it to a class of its own above SCHED_FIFO.

I'll try and get something done, but I'm heading out to LinuxCon.JP
soon.