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From: Mike Galbraith on 11 Mar 2010 05:00

sched: remove NORMALIZED_SLEEPER

This feature hasn't been enabled in a long time, remove effectively dead code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

---
kernel/sched_fair.c | 10 ----------
kernel/sched_features.h | 7 -------
2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -741,16 +741,6 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, stru
unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;

/*
- * Convert the sleeper threshold into virtual time.
- * SCHED_IDLE is a special sub-class. We care about
- * fairness only relative to other SCHED_IDLE tasks,
- * all of which have the same weight.
- */
- if (sched_feat(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER) && (!entity_is_task(se) ||
- task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE))
- thresh = calc_delta_fair(thresh, se);
-
- /*
* Halve their sleep time's effect, to allow
* for a gentler effect of sleepers:
*/
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -13,13 +13,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)

/*
- * By not normalizing the sleep time, heavy tasks get an effective
- * longer period, and lighter task an effective shorter period they
- * are considered running.
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 0)
-
-/*
* Place new tasks ahead so that they do not starve already running
* tasks
*/


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