linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 2/6] sched/numa: drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle

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Message-Id: <1386756961-3887-3-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:15:57 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 2/6] sched/numa: drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl

commit 887c290e (sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights
based on swap candidate relationships) drop the check against
sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count, this patch remove the sysctl.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/sched/sysctl.h |    1 -
 kernel/sched/fair.c          |    9 ---------
 kernel/sysctl.c              |    7 -------
 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
index 41467f8..31e0193 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size;
-extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index fd773ad..acdef27 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -886,15 +886,6 @@ static unsigned int task_scan_max(struct task_struct *p)
 	return max(smin, smax);
 }
 
-/*
- * Once a preferred node is selected the scheduler balancer will prefer moving
- * a task to that node for sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count number of PTE
- * scans. This will give the process the chance to accumulate more faults on
- * the preferred node but still allow the scheduler to move the task again if
- * the nodes CPUs are overloaded.
- */
-unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count __read_mostly = 4;
-
 static void account_numa_enqueue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	rq->nr_numa_running += (p->numa_preferred_nid != -1);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 34a6047..c8da99f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -385,13 +385,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
 	{
-		.procname       = "numa_balancing_settle_count",
-		.data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
-		.mode           = 0644,
-		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
-	},
-	{
 		.procname       = "numa_balancing_migrate_deferred",
 		.data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_migrate_deferred,
 		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
-- 
1.7.5.4

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