linux-kernel - What's new in sched.git for v2.6.28

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Message-ID: <20081008215300.GA18634@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:53:00 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: What's new in sched.git for v2.6.28


the scheduler family of trees had 4 topic trees active during the past 3 
months of the v2.6.28 development cycle:

   sched/core
   sched/cpu-hotplug
   sched/cpusets
   sched/rt

   31 files changed, 688 insertions(+), 487 deletions(-)

38 commits from 18 authors - see the shortlog below.

	Ingo

---------------->
Amit K. Arora (1):
      sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair

Andrew Morton (1):
      sched: clarify ifdef tangle

Bharata B Rao (2):
      sched: call resched_task() conditionally from new task wake up path
      sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list

Chris Friesen (1):
      sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variant

Claudio Scordino (1):
      sched: new documentation about CFS

Dario Faggioli (1):
      sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq

Frederic Weisbecker (1):
      cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const

Gautham R Shenoy (1):
      sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task

Ingo Molnar (3):
      sched: clean up __might_sleep()
      sched: extract walk_tg_tree(), fix
      sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP

Joe Korty (1):
      make might_sleep() display the oopsing process

Kevin Diggs (1):
      sched: add kernel doc for the completion, fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

Krzysztof Helt (1):
      sched: compilation fix with gcc 3.4.6

Li Zefan (1):
      sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()

Manfred Spraul (2):
      kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiers
      kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier

Martin Steigerwald (1):
      CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies

Oleg Nesterov (3):
      sched: do_wait_for_common: use signal_pending_state()
      wait_task_inactive(): don't consider task->nivcsw
      wait_task_inactive: "improve" the returned value for ->nvcsw == 0

Peter Zijlstra (12):
      sched: rt-bandwidth for user grouping interface
      sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
      sched: rt-bandwidth group disable fixes
      sched: extract walk_tg_tree()
      sched: rt-bandwidth fixes
      sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
      sched: rework wakeup preemption
      sched: fixlet for group load balance
      sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
      sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
      sched: fixup buddy selection
      sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap

Richard Kennedy (3):
      sched: reorder signal_struct to remove 8 bytes on 64 bit builds
      sched: reorder struct sched_rt_entity to remove padding on 64 bit builds
      reorder struct prop_local_single to remove padding on 64 bit builds

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