linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/7 v4] sched/fair: remove unused return of _nohz_idle

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Message-Id: <20210224133007.28644-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:30:02 +0100
From:   Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To:     mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com,
        mgorman@...e.de, bristot@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, valentin.schneider@....com
Cc:     fweisbec@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de, qais.yousef@....com,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/7 v4] sched/fair: remove unused return of _nohz_idle_balance

The return of _nohz_idle_balance() is not used anymore so we can remove
it

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0d45b7716384..e23709f6854b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -10354,10 +10354,8 @@ void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu)
  * Internal function that runs load balance for all idle cpus. The load balance
  * can be a simple update of blocked load or a complete load balance with
  * tasks movement depending of flags.
- * The function returns false if the loop has stopped before running
- * through all idle CPUs.
  */
-static bool _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
+static void _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 			       enum cpu_idle_type idle)
 {
 	/* Earliest time when we have to do rebalance again */
@@ -10367,7 +10365,6 @@ static bool _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 	int update_next_balance = 0;
 	int this_cpu = this_rq->cpu;
 	int balance_cpu;
-	int ret = false;
 	struct rq *rq;
 
 	SCHED_WARN_ON((flags & NOHZ_KICK_MASK) == NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK);
@@ -10447,15 +10444,10 @@ static bool _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags,
 	WRITE_ONCE(nohz.next_blocked,
 		now + msecs_to_jiffies(LOAD_AVG_PERIOD));
 
-	/* The full idle balance loop has been done */
-	ret = true;
-
 abort:
 	/* There is still blocked load, enable periodic update */
 	if (has_blocked_load)
 		WRITE_ONCE(nohz.has_blocked, 1);
-
-	return ret;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.1