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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot that I based this patchset on top of my LTTng tree all along, so
> this new patch version is needed for reject-less application of the patchset on
> a vanilla 2.6.35.2 tree.

That does not change my opinion on that much.

As I said before I strongly object to implement special handling for a
particular wakeup scenario as this will open a can of worms for all
other special cases and workloads.

Thanks,

	tglx