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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:57:12 -0800
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>
To: "'Ingo Molnar'" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...l.org>,
"'Christoph Lameter'" <clameter@....com>,
"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [-mm patch] sched remove lb_stopbalance counter
Ingo Molnar wrote on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:42 AM
> * Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com> wrote:
> > > but, please:
> > >
> > > > -#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 13
> > > > +#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 12
> > >
> > > change this to 14 instead. Versions should only go upwards, even if
> > > we revert to an earlier output format.
> >
> > Really? sched-decrease-number-of-load-balances.patch has not yet hit
> > the mainline and I think it's in -mm for only a couple of weeks. I'm
> > trying to back out the change after brief reviewing the patch.
>
> not a big issue but it costs nothing to go to version 14 - OTOH if any
> utility has been updated to version 13 and is forgotten about, it might
> break spuriously if we again go to 13 in the future.
OK, with a reluctant agreement, I've changed the version to 14.
[patch] sched: remove lb_stopbalance counter
Remove scheduler stats lb_stopbalance counter. This counter can be
calculated by: lb_balanced - lb_nobusyg - lb_nobusyq. There is no
need to create gazillion counters while we can derive the value.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
--- ./include/linux/sched.h.orig 2006-12-05 07:56:11.000000000 -0800
+++ ./include/linux/sched.h 2006-12-05 07:57:55.000000000 -0800
@@ -684,7 +684,6 @@ struct sched_domain {
unsigned long lb_hot_gained[MAX_IDLE_TYPES];
unsigned long lb_nobusyg[MAX_IDLE_TYPES];
unsigned long lb_nobusyq[MAX_IDLE_TYPES];
- unsigned long lb_stopbalance[MAX_IDLE_TYPES];
/* Active load balancing */
unsigned long alb_cnt;
--- ./kernel/sched.c.orig 2006-12-05 07:56:31.000000000 -0800
+++ ./kernel/sched.c 2006-12-05 08:02:11.000000000 -0800
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static inline void task_rq_unlock(struct
* bump this up when changing the output format or the meaning of an existing
* format, so that tools can adapt (or abort)
*/
-#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 13
+#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 14
static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
{
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_fil
seq_printf(seq, "domain%d %s", dcnt++, mask_str);
for (itype = SCHED_IDLE; itype < MAX_IDLE_TYPES;
itype++) {
- seq_printf(seq, " %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu",
+ seq_printf(seq, " %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu",
sd->lb_cnt[itype],
sd->lb_balanced[itype],
sd->lb_failed[itype],
@@ -474,8 +474,7 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_fil
sd->lb_gained[itype],
sd->lb_hot_gained[itype],
sd->lb_nobusyq[itype],
- sd->lb_nobusyg[itype],
- sd->lb_stopbalance[itype]);
+ sd->lb_nobusyg[itype]);
}
seq_printf(seq, " %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu\n",
sd->alb_cnt, sd->alb_failed, sd->alb_pushed,
@@ -2579,10 +2578,8 @@ redo:
group = find_busiest_group(sd, this_cpu, &imbalance, idle, &sd_idle,
&cpus, balance);
- if (*balance == 0) {
- schedstat_inc(sd, lb_stopbalance[idle]);
+ if (*balance == 0)
goto out_balanced;
- }
if (!group) {
schedstat_inc(sd, lb_nobusyg[idle]);
-
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