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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4-ac: sparc64 support for O(1) scheduler
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: rml@mvista.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20020615.062233.123620674.davem@redhat.com> from "David S. Miller" at Jun 15, 2002 06:22:33 AM
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>    them... (I am currently putting together all the scheduler bits we have
>    been working on for a 2.4-ac patch...)
> 
> Your sparc64 kernel/sched.c bits have zero testing in any kernel.
> What point are you trying to make?  It disables a very important
> optimization on SMP sparc64.  It's simply unacceptable.

I don't care about Sparc64, especially as a short term item. Long term
yes you are right but for the -ac work, it can fall back for a while
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