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From: Mike Galbraith on 11 Mar 2010 05:00

sched: remove avg_wakeup.

Testing the load which led to this heuristic (nfs4 kbuild) shows that it has
outlived it's usefullness. With intervening load balancing changes, I cannot
see any difference with/without, so recover there fastpath cycles.

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>

---
include/linux/sched.h | 3 ---
kernel/sched.c | 26 ++++----------------------
kernel/sched_debug.c | 1 -
kernel/sched_fair.c | 31 -------------------------------
kernel/sched_features.h | 6 ------
5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1105,9 +1105,6 @@ struct sched_entity {

u64 nr_migrations;

- u64 start_runtime;
- u64 avg_wakeup;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
u64 wait_start;
u64 wait_max;
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1880,9 +1880,6 @@ static void update_avg(u64 *avg, u64 sam
static void
enqueue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wakeup, bool head)
{
- if (wakeup)
- p->se.start_runtime = p->se.sum_exec_runtime;
-
sched_info_queued(p);
p->sched_class->enqueue_task(rq, p, wakeup, head);
p->se.on_rq = 1;
@@ -1890,17 +1887,11 @@ enqueue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_

static void dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sleep)
{
- if (sleep) {
- if (p->se.last_wakeup) {
- update_avg(&p->se.avg_overlap,
- p->se.sum_exec_runtime - p->se.last_wakeup);
- p->se.last_wakeup = 0;
- } else {
- update_avg(&p->se.avg_wakeup,
- sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
- }
+ if (sleep && p->se.last_wakeup) {
+ update_avg(&p->se.avg_overlap,
+ p->se.sum_exec_runtime - p->se.last_wakeup);
+ p->se.last_wakeup = 0;
}
-
sched_info_dequeued(p);
p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, sleep);
p->se.on_rq = 0;
@@ -2466,13 +2457,6 @@ out_activate:
*/
if (!in_interrupt()) {
struct sched_entity *se = &current->se;
- u64 sample = se->sum_exec_runtime;
-
- if (se->last_wakeup)
- sample -= se->last_wakeup;
- else
- sample -= se->start_runtime;
- update_avg(&se->avg_wakeup, sample);

se->last_wakeup = se->sum_exec_runtime;
}
@@ -2540,8 +2524,6 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_str
p->se.nr_migrations = 0;
p->se.last_wakeup = 0;
p->se.avg_overlap = 0;
- p->se.start_runtime = 0;
- p->se.avg_wakeup = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;

#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
p->se.wait_start = 0;
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_debug.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_debug.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_debug.c
@@ -408,7 +408,6 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_st
PN(se.vruntime);
PN(se.sum_exec_runtime);
PN(se.avg_overlap);
- PN(se.avg_wakeup);

nr_switches = p->nvcsw + p->nivcsw;

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1591,42 +1591,11 @@ static int select_task_rq_fair(struct ta
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

-/*
- * Adaptive granularity
- *
- * se->avg_wakeup gives the average time a task runs until it does a wakeup,
- * with the limit of wakeup_gran -- when it never does a wakeup.
- *
- * So the smaller avg_wakeup is the faster we want this task to preempt,
- * but we don't want to treat the preemptee unfairly and therefore allow it
- * to run for at least the amount of time we'd like to run.
- *
- * NOTE: we use 2*avg_wakeup to increase the probability of actually doing one
- *
- * NOTE: we use *nr_running to scale with load, this nicely matches the
- * degrading latency on load.
- */
-static unsigned long
-adaptive_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
-{
- u64 this_run = curr->sum_exec_runtime - curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
- u64 expected_wakeup = 2*se->avg_wakeup * cfs_rq_of(se)->nr_running;
- u64 gran = 0;
-
- if (this_run < expected_wakeup)
- gran = expected_wakeup - this_run;
-
- return min_t(s64, gran, sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
-}
-
static unsigned long
wakeup_gran(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
{
unsigned long gran = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;

- if (cfs_rq_of(curr)->curr && sched_feat(ADAPTIVE_GRAN))
- gran = adaptive_gran(curr, se);
-
/*
* Since its curr running now, convert the gran from real-time
* to virtual-time in his units.
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -31,12 +31,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)

/*
- * Compute wakeup_gran based on task behaviour, clipped to
- * [0, sched_wakeup_gran_ns]
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(ADAPTIVE_GRAN, 1)
-
-/*
* When converting the wakeup granularity to virtual time, do it such
* that heavier tasks preempting a lighter task have an edge.
*/


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