Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261403AbUJXJjS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:39:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261404AbUJXJjS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:39:18 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:9938 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261403AbUJXJjP (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:39:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:37:09 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, colpatch@us.ibm.com, mbligh@aracnet.com, ricklind@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch] scheduler: active_load_balance fixes Message-Id: <20041024023709.2e99cb6d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4179EC91.2070100@cyberone.com.au> References: <1098488173.2854.13.camel@farah.beaverton.ibm.com> <4179EC91.2070100@cyberone.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 22 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Darren Hart wrote: > > >The following patch against the latest mm fixes several problems with > >active_load_balance(). > > > > > > This seems much better. Andrew can you put this into -mm please. > Whenever we touch the load balancing we get sad little reports about performance regressions two months later. How do we gain confidence in this change? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/