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cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier

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The function get_loadavg() returns almost always zero. To be more
precise, statistically speaking for a total of 1023379 times passing
in the function, the load is equal to zero 1020728 times, greater than
100, 610 times, the remaining is between 0 and 5.

In 2011, the get_loadavg() was removed from the Android tree because
of the above [1]. At this time, the load was:

unsigned long this_cpu_load(void)
{
        struct rq *this = this_rq();
        return this->cpu_load[0];
}

In 2014, the code was changed by commit 372ba8cb46 (cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU
runqueues less) and the load is:

void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load)
{
        struct rq *rq = this_rq();
        *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait);
        *load = rq->load.weight;
}

with the same result.

Both measurements show using the load in this code path does no matter
anymore. Removing it.

[1] 4dedd9f124

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Daniel Lezcano
2018-10-04 14:04:03 +02:00
committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent 145d952a29
commit a7fe5190c0
3 changed files with 6 additions and 27 deletions
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include/linux/sched/stat.h
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@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ extern unsigned long nr_running(void);
extern bool single_task_running(void);
extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void);
extern unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu);
extern void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load);
static inline int sched_info_on(void)
{