From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@sgi.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:44:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060915094428.GA31195@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060914172617.fc8aef2b.akpm@osdl.org>
* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Christoph Lameter <christoph@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2.
> >
> > AFAIK this is an important scheduler bug that needs to go
> > into 2.6.18 and all stable release since the issue can stall the
> > scheduler for good.
>
> The timing is of course problematic. One approach could be to merge
> it into 2.6.19-early, backport into 2.6.18.x after a few weeks. I
> don't know if that's a lot better, really - it's unlikely that anyone
> will be running serious performance testing against 2.6.19-rc1 or
> -rc2.
with that release approach it's:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> I'm struggling to understand how serious this really is - if the bug
> is "longstanding" then very few machines must be encountering it?
yeah.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-15 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 23:38 [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 10:58 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-07 15:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 17:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 21:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-07 22:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 22:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-08 2:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-08 17:35 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-09-08 18:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-08 20:00 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-09-08 20:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-09 0:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-09-09 5:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-09 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-11 8:37 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-12 18:37 ` [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2 Christoph Lameter
2006-09-15 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-15 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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