This patch is a combination of two complementary patches I worked on for my 
own use that you might find useful.


ht-2 has some very simple hyper-thread enhancements designed to balance 
hyper-thread siblings with cache-warm tasks if possible. 


batch-3 contains an improved version of the batch scheduling I posted a while 
ago. 
changes:
The main improvement in this is it is hyper-thread aware. How it does this is 
it will try not to schedule a batch task on a logical cpu if it's 
hyper-thread sibling is running a normal task. This makes a massive 
difference if you try to run batch tasks on a HT box with an SMP kernel.
It now does it's accounting for batch cpu time as idle time.
Other minor touch ups.

Batch scheduling allows you to specify tasks to be as lightweight as possible, 
using only idle cpu time when it's available instead of a small proportion of 
cpu time that the most niced tasks would in normal scheduling.


Both patches are available separately at this url, but batch-3 depends on the 
ht-2 patch.
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test9

The attached patch is the merged ht2-batch3 patch.

Con