Scheduler Merge for 2.6.24

"'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...'"

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