linux-kernel - Re: [patch 17/67] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:30:12 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 17/67] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the
	scheduler

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (fix-longstanding-load-balancing-bug-in-the-scheduler.patch)
> -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@....com>
> 
> The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains
> processes pinned via processor affinity.


a scheduler change sounds awefully risky for a -stable release,
especially if the head patch with it isn't fully released yet (so very
limited tested).....

as such I'd yank this from this stable release and leave it out until at
least 2.6.19 has been out for a while without complaints about
scheduling.



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