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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:15:17 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: scheduler problems in -next (was: Re: [PATCH 6.4 000/227]
 6.4.7-rc1 review)
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 09:34:29AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Ha!, I was poking around the same thing. My hack below seems to (so far,
> > <20 boots) help things.
> > 
> 
> So, dumb question:
> How comes this bisects to "sched/fair: Remove sched_feat(START_DEBIT)" ?

That commit changes the timings of things; dumb luck otherwise.