> I have a feeling that this discussion got sidetracked: cpu cycles burnt
> in the scheduler indeed is non-issue, but big tasks being needlessly moved
> around on SMPs is worth tackling.]
Its not a non issue - 40% of an 8 way box is a lot of lost CPU. Fixing the
CPU bounce around problem also matters a lot - Ingo's speedups seen just by
improving that on the current scheduler show its worth the work
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