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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 00:19:36 +0200

> The same goes in the other direction as well - you were just hit by 
> scheduler tree related regressions that were only triggered on your 
> 128-way sparc64, but not on our 64way x86 and smaller boxes.

You keep saying this over and over again, but the powerpc folks hit
this stuff too.