Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:37:55 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> 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.

I'm struggling to understand how serious this really is - if the bug is
"longstanding" then very few machines must be encountering it?
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