I'm not keen on the way the minisched patch got reformatted. I changed it into a seperate function, which I think is much cleaner by the time you've added the third patch - no #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA in load_balance. Rejigged patches attatched, no functional changes. Anyway, I perf tested this, and it comes out more or less the same as the tuned version I was poking at last night (ie best of the bunch). Looks pretty good to me. M. PS. The fourth patch was so small, and touching the same stuff as 3 that I rolled it into the third one here. Seems like a universal benefit ;-)