Re: High priority tasks break SMP balancer?

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 16:29:10 EST


On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Micah Dowty wrote:

> Yes, the Python test harness crashes, not the kernel. It's just
> because on a kernel which exhibits this SMP balancer bug, within a
> couple of test iterations I'll hit a case where cpu1 was almost
> totally idle and the test harness divides by zero when calculating the
> imbalance.

I still have some problem understanding what you are complaining about?
The patch that you bisected had some issues that were fixed later by
Siddha.

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