> 
> If you had two tasks both running continuously, one per sibling, then
> not IRQ balancing will penalise the task on the sibling which is
> getting most interrupts.
> 

Yes - did some more reading on HT and how the cpu looks like in that 
case ... I was thinking that interrupt lines - while in HT mode - arenīt 
available independently to both "parts" of the cpu. That was my fault - 
of course.

So just dismiss the patch - sorry.

Thanks,

Kai