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From: Ingo Molnar on 6 May 2008 08:10

* Gregory Haskins <ghaskins(a)novell.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> The follow patch applies to sched-devel. I know the original
> function was somehow trying to protect against dequeueing by
> pre-iterating. I am not sure if I captured the intent properly in
> that regard. What I can say is that the old algorithm would miss
> tasks, and that is now fixed. It may need further adjustment if I
> missed the pre-iterating operation.
>
> Hi Peter,
> I was wrong earlier when I mentioned there might be a problem with
> entity_is_task(). I think this was the root cause of what I was
> seeing. Sorry for the red-herring.

applied Gregory, thanks. Nice fix! Peter, do you concur with Gregory's
analysis?

Ingo
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