linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove unused last_load_update

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:44:55 +0100
From:   Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
To:     vincent.donnefort@....com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, valentin.schneider@....com,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove unused last_load_update_tick rq member

+ Vincent Guittot

On 20.03.20 14:21, vincent.donnefort@....com wrote:
> From: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
> 
> The commit 5e83eafbfd3b ("sched/fair: Remove the rq->cpu_load[] update
> code") eliminated the use case for rq->last_load_update_tick. Removing
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 1a9983d..c41ee26 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6685,7 +6685,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
>  
>  		rq_attach_root(rq, &def_root_domain);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> -		rq->last_load_update_tick = jiffies;
>  		rq->last_blocked_load_update_tick = jiffies;
>  		atomic_set(&rq->nohz_flags, 0);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index 9ea6478..6e14fad 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -860,7 +860,6 @@ struct rq {
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> -	unsigned long		last_load_update_tick;
>  	unsigned long		last_blocked_load_update_tick;
>  	unsigned int		has_blocked_load;
>  #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>