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    [PATCH] sched: less locking in balancing · 632eb5ca
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
    
    Analysis and basic idea from Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
    
    "This small change in load_balance() brings the performance back upto base
    scheduler(infact I see a ~1.5% performance improvement now).  Basically
    this fix removes the unnecessary double_lock.."
    
    Workload is SpecJBB on 16-way Altix.
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