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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: ppc32: Weird process scheduling behaviour with 2.6.24-rc
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> > i think it would be OK to do half of this: make it easier to preempt 
> > a +nice task. Michel, do you really need the -nice portion as well? 
> > It's not a problem to super-preempt positively reniced tasks, but it 
> > can be quite annoying if negatively reniced tasks have super-slices.
> 
> This should do that (unless I need a stronger cup of tea).

cool - thanks Peter. Michel, could you check Peter's patch, does it 
resolve all the interactivity problems you've been seeing?

	Ingo