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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] smt nice introduces significant lock contention
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 10:27:30 +1000
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On Saturday 03 June 2006 10:08, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> I know what smt nice is doing, and it is fine to have.  I'm simply
> proposing the following patch, on top of last roll up patch.

It's still relative breakage of the semantics but I'm willing to concede that 
it will only help a very small proportion of the time with the largest 
timeslices and is in the fastpath.

-- 
-ck