Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 05:05:05 EST



* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe the patch below is correct. With the patch applied, I could
> not recreate the imbalance with rcutorture. Let me know whether you
> still see the problem with this patch applied on any other machine.

thanks for tracking this down! I've applied Christoph's patch (with your
suggested modification plus a few small cleanups).

I'm wondering, why did this trigger under CFS and not on mainline?
Mainline seems to have a similar problem in idle_balance() too, or am i
misreading it?

Ingo
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