linux-kernel - Re: Patch "sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference" has been added to the 2.6.32-longterm tree

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Message-ID: <1297821809.23343.133.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:03:29 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, srostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, ghaskins@...ell.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	stable@...nel.org, stable-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference" has been
 added to the 2.6.32-longterm tree

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 03:01 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > I don't mind this patch being added to the long term tree. But I'm
> > curious about what is the criteria for adding changes to it? This is a
> > performance improvement and not a critical bug fix.
> 
> Yes, I added it for the performance.  .32-stable is enterprise beans and
> biscuits.  Same reason I added the load balancing fixes, boxen won't
> explode without them, but load balancing performs better with them.

Thanks for clarifying.

-- Steve


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