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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:26:53 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based
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* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > this should also solve load average artifacts - do not 
> > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks skew the load upwards?
> > 
> > Quite possibly -- in this case the artifacts would appear just 
> > after boot, and would disappear as soon as the RCU kthreads had 
> > something to do.
> 
> By the way, how would you like to proceed with the fixes thus far? 
> I have put them on -rcu for -next testing, FWIW.

I'd suggest to push them to me ASAP, they should get to Linus before 
-rc1.

Thanks,

	Ingo