sched: remove precise CPU load
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:03 +0000 (17:00 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:03 +0000 (17:00 +0200)
CPU load calculations are statistical anyway, and there's little benefit
from having it calculated on every scheduling event. So remove this code,
it gets rid of a divide from the scheduler wakeup and context-switch
fastpath.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_debug.c
kernel/sched_fair.c

index d4dabfc..25cc9b2 100644 (file)
@@ -1972,42 +1972,11 @@ unsigned long nr_active(void)
  */
 static void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq)
 {
-       u64 fair_delta64, exec_delta64, idle_delta64, sample_interval64, tmp64;
        unsigned long total_load = this_rq->ls.load.weight;
        unsigned long this_load =  total_load;
-       struct load_stat *ls = &this_rq->ls;
        int i, scale;
 
        this_rq->nr_load_updates++;
-       if (unlikely(!(sysctl_sched_features & SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD)))
-               goto do_avg;
-
-       /* Update delta_fair/delta_exec fields first */
-       update_curr_load(this_rq);
-
-       fair_delta64 = ls->delta_fair + 1;
-       ls->delta_fair = 0;
-
-       exec_delta64 = ls->delta_exec + 1;
-       ls->delta_exec = 0;
-
-       sample_interval64 = this_rq->clock - ls->load_update_last;
-       ls->load_update_last = this_rq->clock;
-
-       if ((s64)sample_interval64 < (s64)TICK_NSEC)
-               sample_interval64 = TICK_NSEC;
-
-       if (exec_delta64 > sample_interval64)
-               exec_delta64 = sample_interval64;
-
-       idle_delta64 = sample_interval64 - exec_delta64;
-
-       tmp64 = div64_64(SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * exec_delta64, fair_delta64);
-       tmp64 = div64_64(tmp64 * exec_delta64, sample_interval64);
-
-       this_load = (unsigned long)tmp64;
-
-do_avg:
 
        /* Update our load: */
        for (i = 0, scale = 1; i < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; i++, scale += scale) {
@@ -2017,7 +1986,13 @@ do_avg:
 
                old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i];
                new_load = this_load;
-
+               /*
+                * Round up the averaging division if load is increasing. This
+                * prevents us from getting stuck on 9 if the load is 10, for
+                * example.
+                */
+               if (new_load > old_load)
+                       new_load += scale-1;
                this_rq->cpu_load[i] = (old_load*(scale-1) + new_load) >> i;
        }
 }
@@ -6484,7 +6459,6 @@ static inline void init_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct rq *rq)
 
 void __init sched_init(void)
 {
-       u64 now = sched_clock();
        int highest_cpu = 0;
        int i, j;
 
@@ -6509,8 +6483,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list);
                list_add(&rq->cfs.leaf_cfs_rq_list, &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list);
 #endif
-               rq->ls.load_update_last = now;
-               rq->ls.load_update_start = now;
 
                for (j = 0; j < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; j++)
                        rq->cpu_load[j] = 0;
index fd080f6..6b789da 100644 (file)
@@ -145,8 +145,6 @@ static void print_cpu(struct seq_file *m, int cpu)
        P(nr_running);
        SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %lu\n", "load",
                   rq->ls.load.weight);
-       P(ls.delta_fair);
-       P(ls.delta_exec);
        P(nr_switches);
        P(nr_load_updates);
        P(nr_uninterruptible);
index 2138c40..105d57b 100644 (file)
@@ -94,16 +94,14 @@ enum {
        SCHED_FEAT_FAIR_SLEEPERS        = 1,
        SCHED_FEAT_SLEEPER_AVG          = 2,
        SCHED_FEAT_SLEEPER_LOAD_AVG     = 4,
-       SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD     = 8,
-       SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT          = 16,
-       SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL         = 32,
+       SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT          = 8,
+       SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL         = 16,
 };
 
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_features =
                SCHED_FEAT_FAIR_SLEEPERS        *1 |
                SCHED_FEAT_SLEEPER_AVG          *0 |
                SCHED_FEAT_SLEEPER_LOAD_AVG     *1 |
-               SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD     *1 |
                SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT          *1 |
                SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL         *0;