Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030702AbWJLHaS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:30:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030699AbWJLHaR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:30:17 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47837 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030692AbWJLHaP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:30:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 17/67] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler From: Arjan van de Ven To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061011210449.GR16627@kroah.com> References: <20061011204756.642936754@quad.kroah.org> <20061011210449.GR16627@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:30:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1160638212.3000.409.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > plain text document attachment > (fix-longstanding-load-balancing-bug-in-the-scheduler.patch) > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > From: Christoph Lameter > > The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains > processes pinned via processor affinity. a scheduler change sounds awefully risky for a -stable release, especially if the head patch with it isn't fully released yet (so very limited tested)..... as such I'd yank this from this stable release and leave it out until at least 2.6.19 has been out for a while without complaints about scheduling. - 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/