Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422713AbWCWWGL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:06:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422711AbWCWWGL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:06:11 -0500 Received: from omta04ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.83.156]:52399 "EHLO omta04ps.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932391AbWCWWGJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:06:09 -0500 Message-ID: <44231BCE.4030006@bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:06:06 +1100 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Siddha, Suresh B" CC: kernel@kolivas.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Nick Piggin , "Chen, Kenneth W" , Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cpu scheduler merge plans References: <20060322155122.2745649f.akpm@osdl.org> <1143068226.4421d6424ecf1@vds.kolivas.org> <20060322173754.A19085@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20060322173754.A19085@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta04ps.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:06:07 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 31 Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:57:06AM +1100, kernel@kolivas.org wrote: > >>Quoting Andrew Morton : >> >>># >>># "strange load balancing problems": pwil3058@bigpond.net.au >>>sched-new-sched-domain-for-representing-multi-core.patch >>>sched-fix-group-power-for-allnodes_domains.patch >>>x86-dont-use-cpuid2-to-determine-cache-info-if-cpuid4-is-supported.patch > > > I'd like to see the three above patches in 2.6.17. Peters "strange load > balancing problems" seems to be a false alarm(this patch will have > minimal impact on a single core cpu because of domain degeneration..) and > doesn't happen on recent -mm kernels.. I agree. This is no longer a problem and certainly shouldn't prevent the above patches going in to 2.6.17. Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce - 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/