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From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] HT scheduler, sched-2.5.68-B2
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:53:09 -0500
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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 12:47, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >  - turn off the more agressive idle-steal variant. This could fix the
> >    low-load regression reported by Martin J. Bligh.
>
> Yup, that fixed it (I tested just your first version with just that
> bit altered).

Can we make this an arch specific option?  I have a feeling the HT performance 
on low loads will actually drop with this disabled.  

-Andrew