sched: Remove avg_overlap
authorMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:15:51 +0000 (17:15 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:32:50 +0000 (18:32 +0100)
commite12f31d3e5d36328c7fbd0fce40a95e70b59152c
tree3eaee7fede5ba830395d2e527fdfe60f1aba73f4
parentb42e0c41a422a212ddea0666d5a3a0e3c35206db
sched: Remove avg_overlap

Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy
was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing
the necessary call to update_curr().  This can't be fixed without increasing
overhead in our already too fat fastpath.

Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks
in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating
tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned
into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS.  With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine()
rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking
frequent cache misses.

Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_debug.c
kernel/sched_fair.c
kernel/sched_features.h