Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:44:28 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2 |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0700 (PDT) > Christoph Lameter <christoph@sgi.com> wrote: > > > Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2. > > > > AFAIK this is an important scheduler bug that needs to go > > into 2.6.18 and all stable release since the issue can stall the > > scheduler for good. > > The timing is of course problematic. One approach could be to merge > it into 2.6.19-early, backport into 2.6.18.x after a few weeks. I > don't know if that's a lot better, really - it's unlikely that anyone > will be running serious performance testing against 2.6.19-rc1 or > -rc2.
with that release approach it's:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> I'm struggling to understand how serious this really is - if the bug > is "longstanding" then very few machines must be encountering it?
yeah.
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