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author | Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> | 2018-10-04 14:04:03 +0200 |
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committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2018-10-25 16:49:27 +0200 |
commit | a7fe5190c03f8137ef08db84a58dd4daf2c4785d (patch) | |
tree | f4c2935ca4ccb9bbdc113b3bc29bd85c02cd0159 /include/linux/sched | |
parent | 145d952a29320dea883246bcb24ba1da7ac4bb7f (diff) | |
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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 <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched/stat.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/stat.h b/include/linux/sched/stat.h index 04f1321d14c4..f30954cc059d 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/stat.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/stat.h @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ extern unsigned long nr_running(void); extern bool single_task_running(void); extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void); extern unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu); -extern void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load); static inline int sched_info_on(void) { |