The patch titled
     sched: fix idle load balancing in softirqd context
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: sched: fix idle load balancing in softirqd context
From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Periodic load balancing in recent kernels happen in the softirq.  In
certain -rt configurations, these softirqs are handled in softirqd context.
 And hence the check for idle processor was always returning busy (as
nr_running > 1).

This patch captures the idle information at the tick and passes this info
to softirq context through an element 'idle_at_tick' in rq.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fix reverse idle at tick logic]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 kernel/sched.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/sched.c~sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context 
kernel/sched.c
--- a/kernel/sched.c~sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context
+++ a/kernel/sched.c
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ struct rq {
        unsigned long raw_weighted_load;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
        unsigned long cpu_load[3];
+       unsigned char idle_at_tick;
 #endif
        unsigned long long nr_switches;
 
@@ -2943,12 +2944,7 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct
        struct rq *this_rq = cpu_rq(this_cpu);
        unsigned long interval;
        struct sched_domain *sd;
-       /*
-        * We are idle if there are no processes running. This
-        * is valid even if we are the idle process (SMT).
-        */
-       enum idle_type idle = !this_rq->nr_running ?
-                               SCHED_IDLE : NOT_IDLE;
+       enum idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_at_tick ? SCHED_IDLE : NOT_IDLE;
        /* Earliest time when we have to call run_rebalance_domains again */
        unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60*HZ;
 
@@ -3218,14 +3214,16 @@ void scheduler_tick(void)
        unsigned long long now = sched_clock();
        struct task_struct *p = current;
        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+       int idle_at_tick = idle_cpu(cpu);
        struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 
        update_cpu_clock(p, rq, now);
 
-       if (p != rq->idle)
+       if (!idle_at_tick)
                task_running_tick(rq, p);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
        update_load(rq);
+       rq->idle_at_tick = idle_at_tick;
        if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance))
                raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);
 #endif
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
git-ia64.patch

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