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 25-akpm/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 Wed Apr 23 15:02:29 2003 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c Wed Apr 23 15:02:36 2003 @@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static void rebalance_tick(runqueue_t *t #endif if (!(j % IDLE_REBALANCE_TICK)) { spin_lock(&this_rq->lock); - load_balance(this_rq, this_cpu, 0, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu)); + load_balance(this_rq, this_cpu, idle, cpu_to_node_mask(this_cpu)); spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock); } return; _