Re: [patch 17/67] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler

Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-12T07:30:18Z

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:04 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> (fix-longstanding-load-balancing-bug-in-the-scheduler.patch)
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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> From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@sgi.com>
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> The scheduler will stop load balancing if the most busy processor contains
> processes pinned via processor affinity.

a scheduler change sounds awefully risky for a -stable release,
especially if the head patch with it isn't fully released yet (so very
limited tested).....

as such I'd yank this from this stable release and leave it out until at
least 2.6.19 has been out for a while without complaints about
scheduling.