linux-kernel - Re: [patch 9/12] sched: remove WAKEUP

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Message-Id: <1268301591.6785.42.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:59:51 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 9/12] sched: remove WAKEUP_SYNC feature


sched: remove WAKEUP_SYNC feature

This feature never earned it's keep, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

---
 kernel/sched_fair.c     |    4 ----
 kernel/sched_features.h |    5 -----
 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1657,7 +1657,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct
 	struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
 	struct sched_entity *se = &curr->se, *pse = &p->se;
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = task_cfs_rq(curr);
-	int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
 	int scale = cfs_rq->nr_running >= sched_nr_latency;
 
 	if (unlikely(rt_prio(p->prio)))
@@ -1690,9 +1689,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct
 	if (unlikely(curr->policy == SCHED_IDLE))
 		goto preempt;
 
-	if (sched_feat(WAKEUP_SYNC) && sync)
-		goto preempt;
-
 	if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
 		return;
 
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
 
 /*
- * Always wakeup-preempt SYNC wakeups, see SYNC_WAKEUPS.
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_SYNC, 0)
-
-/*
  * Use the SYNC wakeup hint, pipes and the likes use this to indicate
  * the remote end is likely to consume the data we just wrote, and
  * therefore has cache benefit from being placed on the same cpu, see


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