Hi Ingo, FWIW, I have placed all my latest upstream-able scheduler patches into a branch in my git tree (against tip/master). git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks.git sched/latest Gregory Haskins (11): sched: cleanup inc/dec_rt_tasks sched: track the next-highest priority on each runqueue sched: use highest_prio.curr for pull threshold sched: use highest_prio.next to optimize pull operations sched: only try to push a task on wakeup if it is migratable sched: pull only one task during NEWIDLE balancing to limit critical section sched: make double-lock-balance fair sched: add sched_class->needs_post_schedule() member plist: fix PLIST_NODE_INIT to work with debug enabled sched: create "pushable_tasks" list to limit pushing to one attempt RT: fix push_rt_task() to handle dequeue_pushable properly include/linux/init_task.h | 1 + include/linux/plist.h | 9 +- include/linux/sched.h | 2 + kernel/sched.c | 89 +++++++++++-- kernel/sched_rt.c | 324 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 5 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-) These are built/booted on my quad-core/x86_64 and look good to me. 1) the first four are the "next-highest" v3 patches that I submitted yesterday 2) the last seven are patches that Steven has carried in 26-rt that have not yet been pulled in to tip I assume there is an implicit ACK from Steven on (2) since he pulled them into -rt. We still await comment from Peter re: (1). Regards, -Greg