doug@s15:~/linux-3.0.0/kernel$ diff -u sched.c.original sched.c.doug08
--- sched.c.original    2012-02-09 11:38:59.376250335 -0800
+++ sched.c.doug08      2012-02-29 14:48:07.978858533 -0800
@@ -3404,13 +3404,15 @@
         * any pending idle changes, the respective CPUs might have
         * missed the tick driven calc_load_account_active() update
         * due to NO_HZ.
+        * No, do not. Causes low load averages at higher enter exit idle freqs.
+        * Won't any pending idle get picked up later, what am I missing here?
         */
-       delta = calc_load_fold_idle();
-       if (delta)
-               atomic_long_add(delta, &calc_load_tasks);

        /*
         * If we were idle for multiple load cycles, apply them.
+        * (delete this note in final patch) Note: this code is never executed
+        * on my server systems. The point being that somehow this path needs
+        * to be tested with the proposed patch, but I don't know how.
         */
        if (ticks >= LOAD_FREQ) {
                n = ticks / LOAD_FREQ;