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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:12:29 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms
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Andrew Morton wrote:

>Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
>> There are a _lot_ of scheduler changes in 2.6-mm, and who knows which
>> ones are an improvement, a detriment, and a noop?
>>
>
>We know that sched-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A3.patch caused the regression, and
>we now that sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch mostly fixed it up.
>
>What we don't know is whether the thing which sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch
>fixed was the thing which sched-2.6.0-test2-mm2-A3.patch broke.
>
>

I think Robert was just talking about general improvements or regressions,
etc. I don't think Con is going too badly though - the small amount of
feedback I read about it is normally positive.

I think we might as well use -linus tree for testing while its still in
the test release phase. It probably gets a few orders of magnitude more
testing than mm.


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