Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The problem is with comparing a s64 values with (s64)ULONG_MAX, which 
> evaluates to -1. Then we check if exec_delta64 and fair_delta64 are 
> greater than (s64)ULONG_MAX (-1), if so we assign (s64)ULONG_MAX to 
> the respective values.

ah, indeed ...

> The fix is to compare these values against (s64)LONG_MAX and assign 
> (s64)LONG_MAX to exec_delta64 and fair_delta64 if they are greater 
> than (s64)LONG_MAX.
> 
> Tested on PowerPC, the regression is gone, tasks are load balanced as 
> they were in v7.

thanks, applied!

	Ingo
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