Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:29:03 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Ted Baker <baker@cs.fsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the
	Linux-kernel]
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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

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