From: "Martin J. Bligh" We're in the idle section, so we should flag the load balance as idle. Ooops. Pointed out by John Hawkes kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~sched_idle-typo-fix kernel/sched.c --- 25/kernel/sched.c~sched_idle-typo-fix 2003-04-08 20:37:51.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c 2003-04-08 20:39:04.000000000 -0700 @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ static void rebalance_tick(runqueue_t *t #endif if (!(j % IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK)) { spin_lock(&this_rq->lock); - load_balance(this_rq, 0, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu)); + load_balance(this_rq, idle, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu)); spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock); } return; _