From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] sched: remove smpnice
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:29:25 +1100
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:20 am, Peter Williams wrote:
> Finally, the issue of whether the unacceptable side effects with
> hackbench described by Nick are still present when my patch is applied
> on top of Con's patch needs to be tested.  I think that this is the only
> issue that would prevent my patch going into the main line as the other
> issues have been resolved.

Since whatever we do is a compromise, I vote we fasttrack Peter's patches. See 
if they fix the hackbench regression and take it from there. They have had 
reasonable testing in -mm, and the last changes he made did not significantly 
change the code but fixed balancing decisions. 

Cheers,
Con
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