Strange scheduling behavoir in SMP (kernel 2.2.14)

[Alan Cox]

> point in time --- let's say, xosview has logged more data and has sent
> it to X for display --- then the scheduler is required to run them both
> in preference to any background computation.  
> 
> Sorry, but in this case you just don't have the option of leaving your
> background task running and scheduling only one of the two runnable
> interactive tasks.

Stephen: I can duplicate the report without xosview just doing the stats
monitoring in a kernel tweak. And Peter is right, its hopping about a little
as stuff like kpiod disturb it.

2.3.x doesnt show the problem, 2.2.x + andrea scheduling hacks doesnt seem
to either


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