Hi Ingo, the RT patches for .22 and .23 are passing an incorrect parameter to rebalance_domains. I had this queued up for a few days - its still wrong in .22 and .23 RT patches. Same issue has been fixed in mainline by: diff-tree de0cf899bbf06b6f64a5dce9c59d74c41b6b4232 (from 5d2b3d3695a841231b65b55 Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Aug 12 18:08:19 2007 +0200 sched: run_rebalance_domains: s/SCHED_IDLE/CPU_IDLE/ rebalance_domains(SCHED_IDLE) looks strange (typo), change it to CPU_IDLE. the effect of this bug was slightly more agressive idle-balancing on SMP than intended. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Thanks, Sven This parameter was missed when SCHED_IDLE was replaced by CPU_IDLE. Fixed in mainline by: commit de0cf899bbf06b6f64a5dce9c59d74c41b6b4232 Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Aug 12 18:08:19 2007 +0200 signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6.22.1-rt9-broken-out/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.1-rt9-broken-out.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6.22.1-rt9-broken-out/kernel/sched.c @@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct if (need_resched()) break; - rebalance_domains(balance_cpu, SCHED_IDLE); + rebalance_domains(balance_cpu, CPU_IDLE); rq = cpu_rq(balance_cpu); if (time_after(this_rq->next_balance, rq->next_balance)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html