Re: [rfc][patch] sched: remove smpnice

[Martin Bligh]

> I think that the problems with excessive idling with the early versions 
> of my modifications to Con's patch showed that the load balancing code 
> is fairly sensitive to the average load per normal task not being 
> approximately 1.  My latest patches restore this state of affairs and 
> kernbench testing indicates that the excessive idling has gone away (see 
> Martin J Bligh's message of 2006/01/29 11:52 "Re: -mm seems 
> significantly slower than mainline on kernbench thread").

I *think* the latest slowdown in -mm was due to some TSC side effects 
from John's patches - see his other patch earlier today to fix (oops,
I forgot to reply to that ..)

So AFAICS, all issues with Peter's stuff were fixed.
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