Hi All
Thanks to Sridhar Samudral and Paul McKenney for all the help and comments.
I think this is a final version, unless someone else can spot more problems.
I've ran this under heavy load and it the patches behaves well.
I think patch 1 is a candidate for 2.6.23 since it fixes a bug, but splitting
these seems a bit odd to me. I'll leave it to DaveM to decide where to
put them.
Thanks
-vlad