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On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 12:56 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:

> Just one buddy to pack tasks for whole level cpus definitely has
> scalability problem.

Right, but note we already have this scalability problem in the form of
the ILB. Some people were working on sorting that but then someone
changed jobs and I think it fell in some deep and dark crack.

Venki, Suresh?

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