From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: smp 'nice' bias support breaks scheduler behavior
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:54:53 +1100
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On Friday 27 January 2006 12:34, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:29:02PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > We planned to push it for 2.6.16 but issues showed up, which Peter has
> > since addressed - but this means the code has not had enough testing to
> > go into 2.6.16 - so it is likely to be in 2.6.17.
>
> Then for 2.6.16, I would like to see smp nice handling patch backed out.
>
> Do you agree?

It's not my decision to keep Peter's patch out of mainline. If you can make a 
strong enough case for it then Linus will merge it up even though it's after 
rc1. Otherwise I'll let Ingo decide on whether to pull the current 
implementation or not - you're saying that with the one thing you described 
that misbehaves that it is doing more harm than fixing smp nice handling.

Con
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