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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:39:28 -0300
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: AndrewMorton <akpm@osdl.org>, ck@vds.kolivas.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Markus =?iso-8859-1?q?T=F6rnqvist?= <mjt@nysv.org>,
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Subject: Re: [SMP NICE] [PATCH] SCHED: Implement nice support across physical cpus on SMP
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From: carlos@fisica.ufpr.br (Carlos Carvalho)
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Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org) wrote on 16 May 2005 21:33:
 >On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:04, Con Kolivas wrote:
 >> Andrew please consider for inclusion in -mm
 >
 >It looks like I missed my window of opportunity and the SMP balancing design 
 >has been restructured in latest -mm again so this patch will have to wait 
 >another generation. Carlos, Markus you'll have to wait till that code settles 
 >down (if ever) before I (or someone else) rewrites it for it to get included 
 >in -mm followed by mainline. The patch you currently have will work fine for 
 >2.6.11* and 2.6.12*

That's a pity. What's more important however is that this misfeature
of the scheduler should be corrected ASAP. The nice control is a
traditional UNIX characteristic and it should have higher priority in
the patch inclusion queue than other scheduler improvements.
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