diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.40-vanilla/kernel/sched.c linux-2.5.40-sched_cleanup/kernel/sched.c
--- linux-2.5.40-vanilla/kernel/sched.c	Tue Oct  1 00:07:35 2002
+++ linux-2.5.40-sched_cleanup/kernel/sched.c	Wed Oct  2 11:22:41 2002
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@
 	if (likely(!busiest))
 		goto out;
 
-	*imbalance = (max_load - nr_running) / 2;
+	*imbalance = (max_load - nr_running);
 
 	/* It needs an at least ~25% imbalance to trigger balancing. */
 	if (!idle && (*imbalance < (max_load + 3)/4)) {
@@ -746,6 +746,11 @@
 	task_t *tmp;
 
 	busiest = find_busiest_queue(this_rq, this_cpu, idle, &imbalance);
+	/*
+	 * We only want to steal a number of tasks equal to 1/2 the imbalance,
+ 	 * otherwise, we'll just shift the imbalance to the new queue.
+	 */
+	imbalance >>= 1;
 	if (!busiest)
 		goto out;