The patch titled smpnice: don't consider sched groups which are lightly loaded for balancing (fix) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is smpnice-dont-consider-sched-groups-which-are-lightly-loaded-for-balancing-fix.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~smpnice-dont-consider-sched-groups-which-are-lightly-loaded-for-balancing-fix kernel/sched.c --- 25/kernel/sched.c~smpnice-dont-consider-sched-groups-which-are-lightly-loaded-for-balancing-fix Fri Apr 21 15:23:25 2006 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c Fri Apr 21 15:23:25 2006 @@ -2209,11 +2209,13 @@ find_busiest_group(struct sched_domain * * moved */ if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task) { -small_imbalance: - unsigned long pwr_now = 0, pwr_move = 0; + unsigned long pwr_now, pwr_move; unsigned long tmp; - unsigned int imbn = 2; + unsigned int imbn; +small_imbalance: + pwr_move = pwr_now = 0; + imbn = 2; if (this_nr_running) { this_load_per_task /= this_nr_running; if (busiest_load_per_task > this_load_per_task) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx are sched-implement-smpnice.patch sched-prevent-high-load-weight-tasks-suppressing-balancing.patch sched-improve-stability-of-smpnice-load-balancing.patch sched-improve-smpnice-load-balancing-when-load-per-task.patch smpnice-dont-consider-sched-groups-which-are-lightly-loaded-for-balancing.patch smpnice-dont-consider-sched-groups-which-are-lightly-loaded-for-balancing-fix.patch sched-modify-move_tasks-to-improve-load-balancing-outcomes.patch sched-avoid-unnecessarily-moving-highest-priority-task-move_tasks.patch sched_domain-handle-kmalloc-failure.patch sched_domain-handle-kmalloc-failure-fix.patch sched_domain-dont-use-gfp_atomic.patch sched_domain-use-kmalloc_node.patch sched_domain-allocate-sched_group-structures-dynamically.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html