Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix and optimise calculation of theweight-inverse

[Ingo Molnar]

* tip-bot for Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit-ID:  db670dac49b5423b39b5e523d28fe32045d71b10
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/db670dac49b5423b39b5e523d28fe32045d71b10
> Author:     Stephan Baerwolf <stephan.baerwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 11 May 2011 18:03:29 +0200
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:01:18 +0200

Just want to highlight this aspect of Stephan's scheduler fix for the lkml 
discussion:

> [ This could explain some aritmetical issues for small shares but nothing
>   concrete has been reported yet so we are not confident enough to queue
>   this up in sched/urgent and for -stable backport. But if anyone finds
>   this commit and sees it to fix some badness then we can certainly
>   change our mind! ]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

So this could be a -stable candidate because it's a fix and it's simple, except 
that at the moment we have no reason to believe that this is a regression or a 
serious bug.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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