Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch "sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference" has been added to the 2.6.32-longterm tree | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:01:07 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 18:02 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [ Added LKML ] > > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 13:17 -0800, gregkh@suse.de wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference > > > > to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > 0006-sched-Give-CPU-bound-RT-tasks-preference.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm tree, > > please let <stable@kernel.org> know about it. > > > > > > I don't mind this patch being added to the long term tree. But I'm > curious about what is the criteria for adding changes to it? This is a > performance improvement and not a critical bug fix.
Yes, I added it for the performance. .32-stable is enterprise beans and biscuits. Same reason I added the load balancing fixes, boxen won't explode without them, but load balancing performs better with them.
-Mike
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