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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:29:27 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sched: add asymmetric packing option for sibling
 domain

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 16:21 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Peter: Since this is based mainly off your initial patch, it should
> have your signed-off-by too, but I didn't want to add without your
> permission.  Can I add it?

Of course! :-)

This thing does need a better changelog though, and maybe a larger
comment with check_asym_packing(), explaining why and what we're doing
and what we're assuming (that lower cpu number also means lower thread
number).
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