Re: cpu scheduler merge plans

[Peter Williams]

Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:57:06AM +1100, kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > #
> > > # "strange load balancing problems": pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 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
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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