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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch v2 1/2] sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:09:00PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
[..]
> 
>    [ This issue is present from 2.6.35+ kernels, but marking it -stable
>      only from v3.0+ as the proposed fix depends on the scheduler_ipi()
>      that is introduced recently. ]
> 

Hi Suresh,

Are you planning to fix this issue for older kernels too? I am wondering
how to go about fixing it there.

Thanks
Vivek