Scheduler Fixes

"Ingo Molnar sent a merge request to Linus Torvalds for the latest CFS fixes. CFS, the Completely Fair Scheduler, was merged into the mainline Linux kernel in July of 2007. It was first included in the 2.6.23 kernel, released in October of 2007. The scheduler appears to be quickly stabilizing, visible in the minimal assortment of fixes contained in the latest source code push. Ingo Molnar summarized the changes:

"'There are two cross-subsystem groups of fixes: three commits that resolve a KVM build fix on !SMP - acked by Avi to go in via the scheduler git tree because it changes a central include file. The other one is a powerpc CPU time accounting regression fix from Paul Mackerras..."

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