Re: Patch "sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference" has beenadded to the 2.6.32-longterm tree

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 21:03:41 EST


On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 03:01 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > 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.

Thanks for clarifying.

-- Steve


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