From a7fe5190c03f8137ef08db84a58dd4daf2c4785d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:04:03 +0200 Subject: cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier The function get_loadavg() returns almost always zero. To be more precise, statistically speaking for a total of 1023379 times passing in the function, the load is equal to zero 1020728 times, greater than 100, 610 times, the remaining is between 0 and 5. In 2011, the get_loadavg() was removed from the Android tree because of the above [1]. At this time, the load was: unsigned long this_cpu_load(void) { struct rq *this = this_rq(); return this->cpu_load[0]; } In 2014, the code was changed by commit 372ba8cb46b2 (cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU runqueues less) and the load is: void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load) { struct rq *rq = this_rq(); *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait); *load = rq->load.weight; } with the same result. Both measurements show using the load in this code path does no matter anymore. Removing it. [1] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/4dedd9f124703207895777ac6e91dacde0f7cc17 Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- kernel/sched/core.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 9245c56b8f5f..c8d5c279be14 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -2887,13 +2887,6 @@ unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu) return atomic_read(&cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_iowait); } -void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load) -{ - struct rq *rq = this_rq(); - *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait); - *load = rq->load.weight; -} - /* * IO-wait accounting, and how its mostly bollocks (on SMP). * -- cgit