Re: [patch 7/12] sched: remove NORMALIZED_SLEEPER

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

sched: remove NORMALIZED_SLEEPER

This feature hasn't been enabled in a long time, remove effectively dead code.

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

---
 kernel/sched_fair.c     |   10 ----------
 kernel/sched_features.h |    7 -------
 2 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -741,16 +741,6 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, stru
 		unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;
 
 		/*
-		 * Convert the sleeper threshold into virtual time.
-		 * SCHED_IDLE is a special sub-class.  We care about
-		 * fairness only relative to other SCHED_IDLE tasks,
-		 * all of which have the same weight.
-		 */
-		if (sched_feat(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER) && (!entity_is_task(se) ||
-				 task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE))
-			thresh = calc_delta_fair(thresh, se);
-
-		/*
 		 * Halve their sleep time's effect, to allow
 		 * for a gentler effect of sleepers:
 		 */
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -13,13 +13,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
 
 /*
- * By not normalizing the sleep time, heavy tasks get an effective
- * longer period, and lighter task an effective shorter period they
- * are considered running.
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER, 0)
-
-/*
  * Place new tasks ahead so that they do not starve already running
  * tasks
  */