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Cc: Michael Plass <mfp49_freebsd@plass-family.net>
Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE  wacky load averages on -current, fixed.
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Jeff Roberson wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Michael Plass wrote:
>> 
>> Jeff, were you ever able to reproduce the wacky load averages referenced 
>> above?  I updated from -current and built with SCHED_ULE, and I'm seeing 
>> this on an idle dual-P4:
>
> Yes, I have a patch to fix it in the works.  Should have some time to get 
> back to this soon.

Please test http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ulehtt.diff.

This should fix HTT machines.  It also has a small performance improvement 
in it for interrupt heavy workloads that may cause a lot of preemption.

Thanks,
Jeff