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Message-ID: <20060915094428.GA31195@elte.hu> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:44:28 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@....com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2 * Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter <christoph@....com> wrote: > > > Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2. > > > > AFAIK this is an important scheduler bug that needs to go > > into 2.6.18 and all stable release since the issue can stall the > > scheduler for good. > > The timing is of course problematic. One approach could be to merge > it into 2.6.19-early, backport into 2.6.18.x after a few weeks. I > don't know if that's a lot better, really - it's unlikely that anyone > will be running serious performance testing against 2.6.19-rc1 or > -rc2. with that release approach it's: Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> > I'm struggling to understand how serious this really is - if the bug > is "longstanding" then very few machines must be encountering it? yeah. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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