Subject: Re: Patch "sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference" has been
 added to the 2.6.32-longterm tree
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, srostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
        ghaskins@novell.com, mingo@elte.hu, stable@kernel.org,
        stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:01:07 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 18:02 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [ Added LKML ]
> 
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 13:17 -0800, gregkh@suse.de wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
> > 
> > to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      0006-sched-Give-CPU-bound-RT-tasks-preference.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm tree,
> > please let <stable@kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I don't mind this patch being added to the long term tree. But I'm
> curious about what is the criteria for adding changes to it? This is a
> performance improvement and not a critical bug fix.

Yes, I added it for the performance.  .32-stable is enterprise beans and
biscuits.  Same reason I added the load balancing fixes, boxen won't
explode without them, but load balancing performs better with them.

	-Mike


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