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"It contains lots of scheduler updates from lots of people - hopefully the last big one for quite some time," began Ingo Molnar, describing his merge request for the linux-2.6-sched git tree. He continued, "most of the focus was on performance (both micro-performance and scalability/balancing), but there's the fair-scheduling feature now Kconfig selectable too. Find the shortlog below." Ingo noted, "code that is touched outside of the scheduler: the KVM bits were acked by Avi, the net/unix change is trivial and only affects sync wakeups, ditto the fs/pipe.c changes - but i can push those separately if it needs an ack from David first." He then concluded:

"Testing status: the changes are chronological and all the interactivity-impacting changes are near the head of the queue and most of them were done weeks ago, and were thus part of the CFS-v22 backport series - which was tested by many people. There are no known regressions at the moment. It's all fully bisectable."

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