From: "Martin J. Bligh" rebalance_tick is not properly passing the idle argument through to load_balance in one case. The fix is trivial. Pointed out by John Hawkes. kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~rebalance_tick-fix kernel/sched.c --- 25/kernel/sched.c~rebalance_tick-fix 2003-06-10 23:33:21.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c 2003-06-10 23:33:21.000000000 -0700 @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ 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; _