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Subject: Re: [ 11/37] sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation --
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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 19:16 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I'm thrilled to see this regression fix for stable@, but are we really
> really sure that it won't cause new regressions? 

Doug Smythies ran a ~68 hour test on it, running various synthetic loads
of various frequencies against it and comparing the reported load
averages against the expected values and found it to be 'good'.

This doesn't guarantee we won't find more 'interesting' problems in
there, but it does give me fair confidence in it.